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Fort Pierce (Florida) girl, 11, commits suicide
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I'm flaberghasted, but can't say I'm surprised. I honestly wonder which is more at fault? The parents for not toughening their child, the bullies who may be getting worse from when we were all in school, or society for raising pansy-ass children who can't live their lives without medications and massive amounts of "validation" from overly-protective parents...redrumloa said:
It's a tragedy that an 11-year-old has died. Absolutely true, but there is something desperately wrong with society that let things go this far at that age...
Wayne
It's tragic any time a child's life is ended early. And more heartfelt when it's by her own hand. My heart goes out to the family. I can't imagine what they are going through.
But is there really a "fault" in a suicide? Seriously, the person who could have stopped this tragedy is the child, herself. Blaming anything else is just a delusion to try to explain the sometimes unexplainable.
Right... Because no one ever committed suicide 10, 100, or 1,000 years ago... US Suicide rates are actually quite a bit lower than they were in the 1930's...
That's not to say that I don't think there are things we can do to improve people's lives, and it's not to say that I think we shouldn't strive to lower that number even further... It's just to say that assigning "blame" over an action that someone performed to themselves is absurd. It's human nature to try to search for answers. Sometimes there aren't any.
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You partially misunderstand.ilwrath said:
As I said, it's a tragedy, and like you, my heart goes out to the family, but in my 44 years, I have NEVER heard of a pre-teen committing suicide. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's happened before and just "slid under the media radar" but in my mind, a child of that age (in this modern era -- as opposed to the middle ages) shouldn't even have any idea what suicide is, let alone a desire to kill themselves. Therein lies my point.
If an 11-year-old not only knows of, but contemplates suicide, that -- to me -- indicates a much larger issue with society as a whole. Whether it's media, or parenting, or increasingly fierce bullies, I don't know. Maybe blame is the wrong word, but I find myself terribly saddened over the whole ordeal, and not just for the sake of the child or her grieving parents.
Right... Because no one ever committed suicide 10, 100, or 1,000 years ago... US Suicide rates are actually quite a bit lower than they were in the 1930's...[/quote:2oc69sll]
Suicide is one thing, and where I think we went astray. Suicide of an 11-year-old girl is -- in my mind -- a completely different thing..
Wayne
Not particularly. Suicide is typically the domain of the young and old. Once a kid makes it past the teens, the rate drops dramatically until elderly.
And, anyhow, suicide rates for the under 15 yr old crowd are also on the decline. (At least for the only reliable data I could find.)
National Institute of Health data.