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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Yeah. I agree with most of you but I'd like to add this:
Stress leads to depression, depression leads to suicide. It's not like a person is just weak and selfish... they're not really thinking straight. Depression is an illness. I believe he was also on heroine or something... so that probably had a big part in it too. You're especially not thinknig straight when you're dealing with drugs and an addiction.

Suicide is a permantent solition to a temorary problem. And you wouldn't believe the amount of people that really care about you and would cry for you if you did do something like that. You're releasing your pain but causing so much more pain for anyone even remotely related to you or your life.

Depresion can be triggered by an event, or just happen. So if you're having suicidal thoughts you have to realize you're not yourself and seek help.


(This is according to rumor since only the police and school superintendant were there when they first found him) The kid went to the frontdoors of school in the middle of the night. He took off his coat and neatly folded it. He wrote "I'm sorry" in the dirt with a stick. And shot himself in the stomache/head. It varies from story to story where he really shot himself.