damn kids

Larry Gude

Larry Gude

Strung Out
Your compassion is heartwarming...

...do you know how scary it is to us that some POS smart ass kid will spike our daughters beer and her first experience with a halucinogenic will lead her to a window ledge???
 
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justhangn

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I really do question why this college has such a high suicide rate. :frown:

I can't imagine what her/their parents are going through.
 
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bresamil

wandering aimlessly
justhangn said:
I really do question why this college has such a high suicide rate. :frown:

I can't imagine what her/their parents are going through.
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It does seem like a strange pattern. There must be a common thread. Wonder if there are any "persuasive" people that they each associated with - someone with the talents of Hannibal Lector.
Very sad.
 
Larry Gude

Larry Gude

Strung Out
NYU is...

...THE major leagues in a bunch of fields, including the arts, which I think this last kid was in. Every parent we met said the same thing; NYU was their kids dream school.

It is also in one of the two most eclectic neighborhoods on the planet; Greenwhich Village. (Berkley being the other). IE; sex, drugs and rock 'n roll and a bunch of adults who live there BECAUSE of that.

Obviously, Greenwhich is not the only place where drugs and college kids intersect but it is the pinnacle. High reward/high pressure added to a VERY adult place which also happens to be in the greatest city on the planet replete with it's own warts and special challenges.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Our daughter's comment: "What'd she do that for? First semester grades don't come out for months!"

The fact is that more college kids graduate (or even flunk/drop out) than commit suicide. I will suggest that more 7-11 clerks commit suicide than college students, but they're not nearly as glamorous a story. Anything that's unusual makes the news. That this NYU kid made the papers is heartening, because that means it doesn't happen very often.

I have a kid in Baghdad. I'm not real worried about the one in college.
 
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