Depression is an equal opportunity killer. Clinical depression is very dangerous. I would know I have it. I take lots of pills to control my thoughts on suicide. Logic and "strength" are meaningless if someone is deeply depressed.
Anyone that encourages depression or aids it is equally responsible for what ever actions the depressed person takes.
Kids are cruel. Always have been and always will be, but schools can take steps to stop the worst of it and they chose NOT to.
I'm sorry to hear that. I have a friend whose 18 year old niece suffered from depression and when she started giving her prized possessions to her friends, no one knew that was a "warning sign". Then one day her mother came home to find her dead on the floor. The mother called the ambulance and they took her to the hospital. It wasn't until they took an x-ray that they found a bullet. The gun she used rolled under the bed.
The mother, a close friend of mine, was so devastated and then to have the police come back to look for a gun and find it under the woman's bed was just too tragic.
The girl may have been in pain, but the real pain was leaving behind a sister who thought she did wasn't as good as she could have been and a mother who feels she is a failure. In fact, she confided in me right after the tragedy, the only thing keeping her alive was her other daughter and her grand-kids.
The worst thing about successful suicides are the people left behind who have to deal with the aftermath. People who contemplate suicide have to know that because if knowing that can stop one suicide, then talking about it is a good thing and not some uncomfortable thing to shun.
People who call the mentally ill "cowards" are "mentally ill" themselves.
