Mom Tries to Rationalize Prodigy's Death (Child Prodigy 14 Yrs Old Kills Self)

AP / Lexington Dispatch ^ | 3-19-05 | SHARON COHEN

[Miss Behave]

``He wasn't just talented, he was just a really nice young man,'' said David Wohl, an assistant professor at Colorado State University, where Brandenn studied music after high school. ``He had an easy smile. He really was unpretentious.''

I see a sweet child that probably couldn't cope. Lord have mercy on this child.

[isthisnickcool]

Oh shut up.

Gee, you don't sound like a happygal.....

The bottom line is that he killed himself. And that's not too bright.

[Yaelle]

Oh so very sad indeed. He sounds like a nice kid. I wonder if he had any spiritual, religious upbringing.

[Happygal]

Give me a dime for everyone who said ''you don't sound like a happygal''..Find an original line, for starters.

I'm critical of someone playing the whole 'he's gone to damnation' line.

Well, that's all people need, a line of grim reapers standing over a tragedy.

[traviskicks]

I thought it was psychiatry?

[not_apathetic_anymore]

I knew two...one apparently an accidental OD the other a very intentional OD related to longstanding depression.

It makes one wonder about the selection traits for the specialty...mostly self-selection I'd wager. More loners drawn to the field, etc?

This young man had much to offer, it's a shame he wasn't able to navigate adolescence. It's tough enough when you're one of the gang and not odd man out.

[vivabushchick]

New age spiritual at age 10? Could be his reading involved afterlife experiences which he now knows. Sad indeed.

[SeaBiscuit]

'We're trying to rationalize now," his mother said. ``He had this excessive need to help people and teach people. ... He was so connected with the spiritual world. We felt he could hear people's needs and desires and their cries.

The key word being, 'rationalize'. And that last sentence suggest the boy's mother was part of the problem.

[Windsong]

Too bad God does not save those who off themselves.

[Ethrane]

Might be...

But ours is 'up there'...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Fourteen is a tough age for a boy, when the testosterone starts pumping but you still look like a little kid, and all the girls your age don't.

[isthisnickcool]

Give me a dime for everyone who said ''you don't sound like a happygal''..Find an original line, for starters.

Not original enough? And I suppose saying "oh, shut up" is? LOL!

[Happygal]

Well, my God is an all loving, all forgiving God.

Too bad, yours isn't.

[My Favorite Headache]

Why? What is your opinion on why it is so high?

[Semper_Volo]

Sounds like religious zealousy to me.

[TexasTransplant]

At the age of 14 Hormones can really turn your life into an uncontrollable maze of physical and emotional challenges with just about unbearable periods of boredom intermixed.

(I survived by concentrating on being a walking pimple trying to hide an erection)

[Happygal]

This is not a thread to start getting into a pissing contest over semantics, to be honest.

If you want to chalk this one up to a victory for you, in you little cyber land of one-up-manship. So be it.

I just feel really sorry for a teenage suicide, and a family trying to deal with the consequences.

[Semper_Volo]

Don't be a fool

[My Favorite Headache]

14 sucked badly for me

[Boazo]