Daily Thoughts

This story makes me so sad, I can hardly type. A 19-year-old took a handful of pills on a live video feed, and no one who was watching did anything to try to save him until it was too late.

It seems he was egged on to do this by others on the live station, and a group of body builders. I sincerely hope that these people who encouraged this are prosecuted for manslaughter and put into prison, where they can be treated like they deserve. I also hope the parents of this child sue the **** out of them!

If anything is to be learned from this, I hope that the people who were watching it and did nothing learn that you should NEVER take a suicide threat lightly. If you think someone is serious, TELL SOMEONE, tell a parent, tell the police, ANYONE. If it’s online, and you call 911, they can get to the feed and find out where it’s coming from very quickly and get that person some help.

I think this child was just trying to get attention. He wouldn’t have done it on live t.v. if he thought everyone would just sit watching and let him die. He wanted to be saved, and nobody did. It just totally breaks my heart.

I remember being 19. I had my first serious boyfriend then, and I remember wanting to die when we broke up. If I had, I would not have met my husband or had my son two years later. When that relationship died, again, I wanted to die. But I didn’t, because someone talked me into going back to school instead. There I met my next husband and had my second son.

When my second husband died, I wanted to die too. My children were the only thing that kept me going, and they are what keeps me going to this day when things are really bad, as they are now.

There will always be bright days and dark days in your life. Nothing is forever…except death. Death is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

There is so much more to life than what you are feeling when you are a teenager. When you are young, everything feels like the end of the world, but believe me, it isn’t. Maybe the end of that part of your world, but there are bigger and better things awaiting you.

I grew up in an alcoholic, abusive household. I was poor. I was depressed, and nobody saw it. One counselor at my school called me in and asked me if everything was o.k. at home, and I lied, said it was, because I was ashamed. He didn’t pursue it. I wish he had. Don’t be ashamed. Be smart. Talk to people who are trying to help. If I had, I would be in a better place today, and so can you.

Don’t be ashamed or afraid. If you are depressed or thinking of suicide right now, as you read this, call the National Suicide Prevention hotline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255). It’s open 24 hours a day, and has someone standing by, ready to help.

And if you think that nobody loves you, think again. You will be breaking someone’s heart, making someone feel guilty for the rest of their lives, and most likely, it won’t be the person you want it to be. It will be the one person you never wanted to hurt.

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