High School and College Suicide: What Lies Beneath

Students at Claremont McKenna mourn two suicides in a week

If you have been touched by suicide and are feeling alone, you might find this Twitter based community heartbreaking, heart wrenching and comforting.

I live in Los Angeles and like most people nothing breaks through my “out of sight, out of mind” ability to insulate myself from feeling traumatized by tragedy more than when it happens in my own backyard.

And that is what just happened with the two recent suicides within the same week at Claremont McKenna College.

What causes so many young students with so much life ahead of them to kill themselves?

And why do others who after the tragic events and who coulda, shoulda but didn’t do anything not do anything?

That is what we’ll try to address.