Posted on 02/18/2024 9:43:13 AM PST by CFW
Last week, two New York University students died just days apart from each other.
Police officials told the New York Post, that Jacqueline Beauzile, 19, was pronounced dead by EMS after she was found unresponsive at Lipton Hall on Thursday.
The body of Doreah Salti, 18, was discovered around 7:30 PM outside the Barney building on Stuyvesant Street. She was later pronounced dead at the Bellevue Hospital with trauma on her body that indicated that she had either jumped or fallen from the building.
With many speculating that Salti's death was a suicide, her family said they believed her death was an accident.
University spokesman John Beckman said, “The death of any young person is a source of sorrow to the NYU community," and that the cause of death is still pending.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
“One student revealed to the outlet that the school’s mental health care for students is lacking and understaffed. “I get accommodations for my mental health here, but it’s almost like playing the lottery,” 22-year-old Chelsea Laury said.”
I don’t know what circumstances these poor kids were dealing with, so I don’t want to minimize the tragedy of their early deaths - but this sort of stuff is just such a contrast to what my generation experienced just a few decades ago. We had our own refuge for our mental health care - it was called Moody’s Pub - and it got us through four year’s of frustration and disappointment pretty well.
When i went to college a student’s “mental health care” was 100% the province of the student and the student’s family, not the college or university.
No wonder that at some colleges and universities today in addition to often outrageous tuitions many have more campus “administrators” than professors.
This Is Why America Is Coming Apart At Its Seams
Mark Tapscott
February 17,2024
“By the numbers: Gen Z (defined as people roughly ages 12 to 27) reports the poorest mental health of any generation, according to a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation report.
“Just 44% of Gen Zers say they feel prepared for the future.
“The big picture: They dodged familiar teen pitfalls — with lower teen pregnancy rates and lower rates of alcohol use. Instead, they’re grappling with alarming rates of loneliness, depression and suicidal thoughts.
“Zoom in: Partly by choice and partly out of necessity during the pandemic, Gen Z socializes online, rather than in person, far more than previous generations. That’s not healthy, experts say.”
It’s no coincidence that Gen Z is also the least faith-oriented, as found by the Survey Center on American Life”
“In terms of identity, Generation Z is the least religious generation yet. More than one-third (34 percent) of Generation Z are religiously unaffiliated, a significantly larger proportion than among millennials (29 percent) and Generation X (25 percent). Fewer than one in five (18 percent) baby boomers and only 9 percent of the silent generation are religiously unaffiliated.”
This being the case, nobody should be surprised that, as Axios describes it, Gen Zers are grappling with alarming rates of depression, loneliness and suicidal thoughts. What Axios doesn’t highlight is the related factor of absent fathers, which is particularly acute among Blacks but is steadily increasing among Whites as well.
In 1970, I was a freshman in college. I lived in a privately run dorm right next to the campus. It was 12 stories. We used to go to the roof and fly kites. One morning as students were heading out for early classes a student jumped from the roof. He landed on the main path which led to the campus. It was a miracle he did not land on anyone considering the number of people going that way at that time.
Heavy stuff!
Way back in the days when universities were actually academically demanding, we’d hear of a student or two that would commit suicide, and others that would get killed due to an accident of some kind. I guess some things never change.
No autopsies for Vax deaths.
She could have been thrown from the building as well.
In addition to the social media isolation, the first high schoolers affected by Covid lockdowns are in college and entering the workforce.
Is this post a parody or are you a bonafide moron? It is hard to tell sometimes.
At 22, I couldn't even spell "mental health"...much less think I had a problem that needed an "accommodation".
I work at NYU. Suicides happen so frequently among students that Bobst (the library) has installed metal screens around the atrium staircases. It used to look like this: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1280/format:webp/0*wb_5GuiX5nTSCAHz.jpg
Now it looks like this: https://architizer-prod.imgix.net/media/138609248832101_Bobst.jpg?w=1680&q=60&auto=format,compress&cs=strip
Or it could have been the vax.
Gen Z’ers fixate on their “mental health”. It consumes their thoughts. They pick up mental conditions like it is a buffet. Then they get benzos. The word “cope” is like the N word to them.
We have quite a few family friends that have kids in their late teens and early twenties. Most have 3 or more kids in the family and at least ONE in each family in that ‘young adult’ age range is certifiable.
Yeah - something is going on.
Tell us more—any pattern to the suicides?
22-year-old Chelsea Laury said.
Yeah when I was 22 and just out of college, I got fitted with a back pack and had more to worry about then my mental health.
I was just adding the third possibility, because they hadn't covered them all, murder. 😋
When it comes to a death of any kind, the stupid has become very predictable.
I laughed at that. I know I shouldn’t have.
My vote is bona fide moron
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