Originally posted by: Journer
Originally posted by: keeleysam
i hope his mom learns her lesson....
not 100% mom's fault...kid should have gotten help
Are you gay? It's much easier to say that than do it. I was lucky, and happened to have people around me when I was going through my really suicidal teenage years (well... I left them a long time ago, but I'm getting back there, for different reasons
).
When I lived in Columbus, there was a kid (17 years old, had been accepted to some nice college... MIT or something like that) that committed suicide (by shooting himself in the head). His house was less than 100 feet away from mine...
I later heard, from the neighbors (which may or may not have had it right) that he was gay, and he didn't know what to do - his parents were really strict Christians (not sure what denomination, if any), and kept a tight leash on what he could do. I lived very close to him for two years - but only saw him once during that entire time, and that's when he happened to be mowing the lawn at the same time as me.
I would have at least tried to help him through it - but he, of course, would have had no idea that he would find support nearby (assuming that the neighbors were correct). Everyone in the neighborhood tried to help the family in every way they could, to comfort them, after he committed suicide... until some of his classmates said that he did it because he was gay. Then the entire neighborhood stopped talking to his parents. I don't think that was entirely right, either... but he's not around any more to find out what he real reason was for committing suicide, so the answer will never be known (his parents said that he didn't leave a note).
:-
I've also had a few close friends that have committed suicide. I really beat myself up about one of them, because I think that he had been reaching out for help from me, but I didn't recognize that in time.
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