PLN: Week 2- Post 3 Never Coming Back

I read the article, "Fighting the Tide of Youth Suicide", from the rocky mountain news; written by Bill Gallo. It talks about teens committing suicide; while family and friends had no clue that there loved one would do such a thing.

Suicide is so life impacting, not only for the one who commits it but for the ones who love them. To seriously think that your life needs to be over before you even get half way through it blows my mind. Dont you want to grow up and find your true love get married get a job have kids and see where you go in life. So maybe some kids have it harder than me, I pretty much have my life planned out, I’ll graduate high school, go to collage, and get a job, but even for those people who dont have the money or family and friends to support them I dont see why you wouldn’t want to better yourself and try to make it as far as you can, and go out and live!

Just today (Wednesday the 26th) i went to a leadership conference where we talked about safety, we talked about suicide and every school there said that they had students who had committed suicide or knew about students who were on suicide watch, one student even told us about how one of her good friends had shot him self in the head in his car at the parking lot of there school, it had impacted every on of there students. it see a friends head blown off, brain spilling out and blood flowing trough his car, would be the most horrific moment of my life. I then realized that every one of ours schools had, had a suicide it was so much more like common then I had thought.

In the article it says that, Colorado has the sixth highest suicide rate in the nation, wow, sixth out of 52 states. It also said about 724 Coloradans took there life in 2006. I sort of found this all ironic that I choose this story the same time we were supposed to have our yellow ribbon assembly, I was bummed out we didn’t have it but I am looking forward to it! i wonder if teenagers who like commit suicide really think it through to the full extent, you can never come back.

Really ironic that i am sitting here talking about this and my parents are in the other room watching NCIS and its talking about a girl who commited suicide!