[tang-soo]

Sad story. Odd comments by mother in bold. I feel bad for loosing her son, but jeesh, that's just plain wierd.

[Tall_Texan]

Must have inherited his intelligence from his father.

Truly sad to see such potential go to waste. Maybe Mr. Prodigy finally discovered girls. That's done in many a young lad.

[Cindy]

Article Snippet:

"Reached at home late Friday afternoon, Perkins County Sheriff James D. Brueggeman said the investigation was ongoing and declined to comment."

[Pro-Bush]

What a waste of talent. God bless him.

[eclectic]

His mother is a freak. She probably brought him to the breaking point

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

As the mother of a 12 y/o boy who has become depressed and lately taken to expressing suicidal ideations, my heart truly aches for this family.

[Husker24]

Did this kid have any friends? Im not buying that he killed himself in order to donate his organs.

[kb2614]

I wonder what the rest of the story is?? Suicide's are rarely spur of the moment deals.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

While a parent may revel in and brag about a child being so much smarter than his/her peers, the child may be tortured inside that he/she cannot just be accepted into the peer group.

Maybe the child would far prefer the comfort of "belonging" to being a prodigy freak and a parental trophy to be paraded about.

[Skooz]

I wouldn't be too harsh on the mother.

If my 14 year-old were to blow her brains out, I would be talking some pretty incoherent babble myself.

[don-o]

I wonder about people in the midst of such a sad time, even talking to reporters.

[rabidralph]

Mom is also an author.

[PLK]

Brandenn was home-schooled through high school and completed his junior and senior years in seven months. For his high school graduation photo, Brandenn darkened his hair, wore round wire-rimmed glasses, and threw on a red cape to look like one of his favorite characters -- Harry Potter.

Okay, this kid did NOT have anything close to a normal childhood! I think it's a miracle he could function socially at all - my bet is that he was an emotional train wreck. Can you imagine him trying to interact with other 14-year old boys? He was probably teased and bullied big-time.

[Gritty]

He was so connected with the spiritual world... one of his favorite characters -- Harry Potter...

It appears this poor lad was on the wrong track. He was likely connected to the wrong spiritual world, and it may have proved fatal.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Brandon

[JimRed]

She said Brandenn's kidneys went to two people, his liver to a 22-month old and his heart to an 11-year-old boy.

Some good comes out of a sorrowful situatiion.

[George from New England]

The statistical odds are such that eventually the homeschool community was going to lose a child to suicide.

Aren't there each year, hundreds of public school kids that commit suicide?

If you run the numbers I'd be willing to bet that there are fewer homeschoolers with children committing suicide than the public sector has.

Media on the other hand wants to paint homeschoolers in negative light, thus the story makes headlines unlike the public school incidents.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

We just felt like something touched him that day and he knew he had to leave" so his organs could be donated.

yeaaahhhhhhhhhhh....rriiigghhttttt....thats just friggin creepy coming from a parent

[Salvation]

May the Lord be with his family.

What a sad story.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT