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Report: Student Kills Self in Front of 150 Classmates at Alabama High School
FOXNews.com ^ | Thursday, March 06, 2008 | FoxNews

Posted on 03/06/2008 11:41:29 AM PST by metmom

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To: Mr. Silverback

I know what I am missing and that is a family member who was on anti-depressants before the suicidial warning came out on them.
She would have been 35 this year.


61 posted on 03/06/2008 5:27:58 PM PST by sweetiepiezer (DO NOT EAT the white snow.)
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To: Iron Munro

Grief counselors

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Definition of “grief counselor”: Government school priesthood.


62 posted on 03/06/2008 5:34:05 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Iron Munro

“If all he wanted was to commit suicide he would have done it out in the woods all by himself.
There were other factors driving his choice of place and making sure he had an audience.”

Yes, he wanted to be important and noticed.


63 posted on 03/06/2008 6:05:01 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: Iron Munro

No one goes out into the woods to kill themselves, you are put into the woods to make it look like a suicide.


64 posted on 03/06/2008 6:09:28 PM PST by LukeL
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To: GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco

More likely there were 5 or more PE teachers with classes in the gym.


65 posted on 03/06/2008 7:01:55 PM PST by jch10
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To: sweetiepiezer

The fact is, you jumped to an unwarranted conclusion—an opinion pulled out of thin air.


66 posted on 03/06/2008 7:11:22 PM PST by Misterioso
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To: Iron Munro
There is nothing in the article about him being homeless.

My wife works with his counselor, yes he was homeless. No Family, no excuse, just fact.

67 posted on 03/06/2008 7:29:19 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper

Thanks.
No way of knowing from the info available.
How can that be in this day and age?
Sad.


68 posted on 03/06/2008 8:19:15 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: Iron Munro
How can that be in this day and age? Sad.

Ya, and she tells me he was making good grades, what can I say. His counsler is on medication right now. She had hopes for this guy. He was living day to day in a group home of some sorts. "There but by the grace of god go I"

69 posted on 03/06/2008 8:24:22 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: driftdiver
Another concern is suicide tends to be contagious.

And this one happened so soon after a student at Northern Illinois University killed himself onstage in an auditorium filled with other students. The main difference is: the college student shot and killed other students first. This young man didn't, but maybe the Illinois story got him to thinking about suicide in front of other students.

70 posted on 03/06/2008 9:32:13 PM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: proudpapa
Two jocks in my graduating class pulled a cruel hoax on a drunk classmate at a party. The classmate committed suicide the next day. And the two jokers followed within 5 years. Very sad.

Yes, that is very sad. My father once told me this story: When he was a kid, his class took a trip down South which was segregated at the time. There was only one black boy in their class, and everywhere they went, he was separated from them. After the trip, the boy killed himself, and their teacher read his suicide note to their class. It affected my father profoundly.

I'm sure everyone has been touched by at least one suicide in their family or their town, etc. It's so terrible because it never has to be that way. There's a solution to almost every problem, and there are ways to handle the hardships in life.

71 posted on 03/06/2008 9:57:25 PM PST by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: Tired of Taxes

“There’s a solution to almost every problem, and there are ways to handle the hardships in life.”

And suicide doesn’t solve any problems, it only creates more for those you leave behind.


72 posted on 03/07/2008 3:53:36 AM PST by driftdiver
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