(((Wendy))) Enjoy having your son home from that awful place.

And you are wise to worry about about your boys. It's almost like setting this horrible example for survivors, like putting a stamp of approval on a solution to lifes problems..another example of that awful legacy they leave us.

We used to talk alot about "Nature vs Nuture" around here. We had a good friend who was a sociologist and he'd say things like, "give me the baby and I'll make it good", while others of us would argue that environment begins in the womb. I've come to respect both sides of this issue.

And "some suicide experts worry that the biologically oriented researchers slight the social, psychological, and philosophical elements of suicide. Reducing suicide to a biological basis is to ignore the psychological pain which drives it." (1)

Edwin Shneidman said, "There can be no pill that salves the human malaise that leads to suicide."

Amen to that brother. ~sigh

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1.George Howe Colt The Enigma of Suicide