A Sad Story, read if you want...... Options

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I go to a pretty small highschool in a pretty small town so this was big news and all...

A junior committed suicide. Apparently he'd been into drugs and his girlfriend had just broken up with him. It was so sad at school... they had a moment of silence for him insted of the begining of tha day anouncements. The halls were quiet all day and people just cried... even people that didn't know the kid. We didn't do anything in most of our classes.

I find it ironic how by putting himself out of pain he put so many people in so much pain.

But this makes me mad... kids that didn't know the kid and really didn't care took advantage of the administration letting kids sign out. I just think that's really disrespectful to the kid and his family.

So... have you ever dealt with something like this? Have you ever had suicidal thoughts? What do you think about the kids taking advantage of it?

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I've thougha bout suicide before.. but I never really cut myself or anything close to hurting myself purposely. I've never known anyone personally who's committed suicide. But my friend's aunt (I believe) has committed suicide...
I wrote this in the thread http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49995

I don't know anyone who's ever committed suicide, nor have I ever heard about anyone that went to my school that has. But a cool friend of mines's aunt (I believe), committed suicide. I believe she was a single mom, it hard to remember... But when he talked about this in class, when we had a debate... it was terrible. A girl went outside to get some air as tears went down her face, as my friend (who is a guy) told about his aunt.

In my opinion, I think that those who committed suicide didn't realize how big an impact they had on other's lives. No matter what, there will be people out there that care about them, that are affected. Even if everything seems to go all wrong and you just want to die, thinking no one cares, but there really are people who care about you.

My friend's aunt had children.. and he told the class "She just killed herself.. She was so selfish.. I mean, she didn't even think about her CHILDREN!" He said something like that, I'm just paraphrasing. I mean, I know that if I killed myself, I would be getting rid of all my grief, but also, I would hurt the ones I love the most. My boyfriend, whom I've given so much of my love to, would be sad... I know that if he died, I would be in a melancholy state for the rest of my life. And my mother, who's depended on me so much, and I've depended on her so much; I'm helping her now around the house and I want to take care of her in the future, and she's taken care of me since I was a baby. I might even affect my friend's lives because usually I'm a happy person around them.

Even if people act as if they are truly happy, deep down, there MIGHT be a flaw in their happiness. They might be depressed deep down and they might put on a mask to hide their depression and/or adversity.

It's terrible that anyone would commit suicide.. I don't fully blame suicidals for how much they've affected others; things just didn't turn out the way they wanted and they just couldn't handle it... It's traumatic. 

But it's *bleep*ing rude that they would take advantage of that... Suicide is not something that happens to OTHER people or in the movies.. it's real life and it's big issue to many people, if not all.