Teen Suicides. Scary Times

[Duman]

Regarding copycat suicides:

When we lived in Littleton, the priest at our parish had been a Naval Chaplain to Marines. Prior to becoming a priest, he had been a USMC Officer... infantry I believe.

As a chaplain, he had a commander come to him once and ask what he could do about a spate of suicides. He was blunt: stop making suicide a way to get attention; no more rallies, memorials, etc. beyond that which is necessary.

He said it works the same way in schools.

What happens is person 1 kills themselves. Others, seeing the attention and outpouring of support for the deceased, decide this is a good way to "be someone". So they kill themselves, too.

This continues until it becomes clear this is no longer a way to get attention, or at least positive attention.

Sounds harsh, but I tend to agree with him on this.

And yet we build memorials to commemorate school shootings....

[Gman]

And yet we build memorials to commemorate school shootings....

....and bring it up every flipping year....I guess forever.

[BREATHER]

My big question is.... Why spend money on memorials ??? why not spend the same money to educate parents.... I believe one reason is, parents don't want to be bothered

[ben4372]

It's complicated for sure. By coincidence, a book I was listening to today was addressing the crazy rate males kill themselves vs female. Middle age white males really have it bad. As a young white male it might be easy to think the world hates you. They seem to have impulse control problems. The country has a ton of very real problems, this is one of them.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Truly sad stuff.

[jerrymrc]

It is sad. A good friend of many years lost his daughter a few years ago. No outward signs, outgoing and a heck of a musician. She was the oldest and to this day he does not know why.

[Double00]

Back in high school a guy killed himself in our typing class. He was sitting behind me and fell at my feet. A lot of what is happening today was happening then. Bullying, parents not engaging, abuse and so on. Times have changed but are still the same.

[Irving]

Back in high school a guy killed himself in our typing class. He was sitting behind me and fell at my feet. A lot of what is happening today was happening then. Bullying, parents not engaging, abuse and so on. Times have changed but are still the same.

During class? That's bold. Was that Pearl Jam song (Jeremy) out at that time? Do you mind if I ask his method?

[Double00]

1985. .22 to the temple. They made us go back to that classroom the next week . Glad they did.

[Gman]

1985. .22 to the temple. They made us go back to that classroom the next week . Glad they did.

Whaaat? They didn't tear down the school and rebuild it? How insensitive of them.