I was talking about suicide with Shawn on Friday� in our jobs we find that more and more kids are suicidal. We wondered what is making life so much more unbearable now.
is it a religious thing? kids in the 1940s didn't want to go to hell? (in the forties they'd all be dying in the war anyway - patriotic suicide, really). There is definitely relatively less ostracization attached to killing yourself now.. .it's just plain grief, not mortal sin+grief. I wonder if it's more glamorized now, in movies and media?
i just thought - maybe it's the secret thrill of being the centre of attention - knowing that in death you'll be enshrined. People will finally notice you.
Or have our lives changed, become more complex and so much busier that life is now exhausting and the sleep of death enticing? I just don't know. But it's hard to see so many kids contemplating killing themselves, and I don't always know what to say. I refer them to counsellors and I make sure I'm there to talk.
i want to help, but i don't understand. * * * * * *
spend a long time today talking to a resident who's suicidal. it scares me.
5:55 a.m. - 2001-12-11
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