[My Favorite Headache]

Sad

[Miss Behave]

So incredibly sad. So much God given talent. Just so incredibly sad. Loving God, please have mercy on this poor child's soul.

[Churchillspirit]

Very sad, but how the h**l did he get his hands on a gun?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Parent pressure

[Sender]

It sounds like he lived a lifetime in 14 short years.

[RoseofTexas]

Gifted indeed, only thing is no one wants to befriend a know it all type of person. Children with high IQ's are usually ostracized in school and friends are rare to come by..So sad! Loniless could be such a killer! This 14 year old had such potential, perhaps he could've discovered the cure for cancer or something like that. I feel for the young man's parents!

[SteveMcKing]

I'll open the worm can and say it... "home-schooled".

Parents claim much credit when they achieve (as they should get some credit). It's only fair to bring it up when things go badly as well.

Eiher way, I don't think such youngsters in question are properly recognized/condemned individually. Soldiers credit their training for what they do, but they alone pay the price or feel victory in the end, not their drill instructors.

[isthisnickcool]

Sad story. But it appears that it turns out that the kid was not as smart as people thought.

[bigsigh]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1366006/posts

[lotusblos]

"``Sometimes we wonder if maybe the physical, earthly world didn't offer him enough challenges and he felt it was time to move on and do something great,'' his mother, Patricia, said from the family home in Venango, Neb., a few miles from the Colorado border."

No chance that he was driven to it was there? He just drove himself to accomplish things that most adults couldn't do, then he kills himself before he becomes an adult. And mom wonders if maybe life wasn't hard enough for him.

[Clock King]

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly.

[Ethrane]

"Brandenn was taking biology at Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte, Neb., and had recently decided he wanted to become an anesthesiologist."

As an anesthesiologist, I can only say that I would have been honored to work with him...but what is disturbing is that the suicide rate among anesthesiolgists is among the highest when looking at physicians as a group.

[Yaelle]

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

[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.

[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.

[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)

[bewitched]

Poor kid. I remember once hearing that we are only capable of using a small portion of our brain. And if we could use all of it we would go crazy.

[spinestein]

No matter how many friends this kid had, or how well his parents may have raised him, or any of a number of other environmental factors, having an IQ of 178 and being able to out-think everyone else around him made him virtually alone.

For whatever reason, he wasn't able to cope with the mental isolation and killed himself.

Beyond that I'm not wise enough to judge him or his family.

[Fester Chugabrew]

My take on this: the kid was born with a higher than normal intellect, thus manifesting genetic material that was in greater abundance before the Fall. His parents had no idea what was lurking in their genes. The kid was probably so disgusted with how stupid the rest of us are, and how incapable he could possibly be in helping, that he decided to make a hasty exit. The same exit that took Adam hundreds of years to experience by so called "natural causes." Nice of this young kid to be a gentleman in view of the fallen world he so briefly imbibed. Wish he were still with us. Hope he was baptized into Christ Jesus and that I might see him in the life to come.