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Another young man in town hung himself
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 554344" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>When my son-in-law committed suicide I was astonished at how many people, who I had known, told me about their **i<em>nsert relative/friend/associate</em>** who also committed suicide. It happened over and over again. I had no idea, it just wasn't spoken about until it happened to me. I think there are way more suicides then we are aware of. And, with teenagers, they are not cognizant of the finality of this choice. </p><p></p><p>I think life today is extremely stressful for everyone, including teens with the pressures they are under, much different then when I was a teen or even when my daughter was young. With depleted nutritional value in our food, less participation in nature and natural environments, high stress in schools, societal expectations, gender expectations, less job and career opportunities available, more divorce and blended families, both parents working, limited extended families, failures in the economy, a lacking in ethical leadership, deteriorating cultural and familial value systems, less spiritual direction and or guidance,...... I think perhaps all of that combined can leave a young person, or even an older person, empty and with a loss of hope. I believe it's a sobering and unfortunate and very sad commentary about the times we're living in. And, the need for change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 554344, member: 13542"] When my son-in-law committed suicide I was astonished at how many people, who I had known, told me about their **i[I]nsert relative/friend/associate[/I]** who also committed suicide. It happened over and over again. I had no idea, it just wasn't spoken about until it happened to me. I think there are way more suicides then we are aware of. And, with teenagers, they are not cognizant of the finality of this choice. I think life today is extremely stressful for everyone, including teens with the pressures they are under, much different then when I was a teen or even when my daughter was young. With depleted nutritional value in our food, less participation in nature and natural environments, high stress in schools, societal expectations, gender expectations, less job and career opportunities available, more divorce and blended families, both parents working, limited extended families, failures in the economy, a lacking in ethical leadership, deteriorating cultural and familial value systems, less spiritual direction and or guidance,...... I think perhaps all of that combined can leave a young person, or even an older person, empty and with a loss of hope. I believe it's a sobering and unfortunate and very sad commentary about the times we're living in. And, the need for change. [/QUOTE]
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