I learned at Tuesday nights support meeting that two 17 year old boys committed suicide weeks apart. They both attended the same school but didn't run in the same crowd..and the school was the one where The Yellow Ribbon Program is presented. Very disturbing on several counts.

I hadn't heard about them and suicide is a passion of mine...if I hadn't heard of their deaths then I'm very certain the general public hadn't either.

When are we going to get smart about this subject...why does it continue to be hush hush...a taboo subject...lowered voices. Recently we have had suicides on both the Notre Dame and St Marys campuses here and that is also spoken of in lowered voices, if at all.

Suicide is never mentioned as the cause of death in the obituaries here. We have public service messages about texting and driving, drinking and driving, not smoking...etc. Couldn't we offer alternatives to suicide as a free public service??? Couldn't we start to talk about it??????

It frustrates me to put it mildly!