General Chat

This is horrific - 17 in past year - another today. Two cousins last week. What on earth is going on?

God help their familes.

Now they are blaming the press for raising the profile and glamourising it ?

hiya chris, yes i agree love, soooooo sad, my cousin killed his self, his mam never got over it, she died 9 months later, asthma attack, me thinks "a broken heart" x

Suicides no matter what the age leave such a trail of guilt behind them apart from the grief of losing a loved one -I have often wondered would they have still carried this action out if only they had known. My heart does go out to those families - it cannot be coincidence surely - the rate is too high.

Something odd going on there, for sure.
I have lost two friends to suicide and their Mums suffered, one to her dying day and the other still suffering.
Lizx
I think you have to be pretty desperate to do such a drastic thing as if you stop to think how it would affect your family, you surely wouldn't go ahead.

The police say they aren't linked..................but to have so many in a fairly small area seem a bit too much of a coincidence.

Those poor families........ a relative of mine took his life and we still don't really understand why.

xx

It makes me laugh, the police say there is no link, but they either knew each other or were friends of friends

problem is they are not rational enough at the time to think of the hurt they would cause - I speak as someone who attempted suicide about eleven years ago and failed - large overdose but fortunately woke up two days later. You don't think of anyone else at the time, just that you can't go on and that takes everything else right out of your mind - you just want to stop the world and get off

n

There just HAS to be a link.

I'm not a great believer in coincidence.

Too many too close. Those beautiful young people.
Did they need help and why did they not ask for it?

Sandra ans Kitty, My heart goes out to anyone who is left this way.
Your while life would be destroyed forever.
Nothing ever the same again, and your poor aunt Sandra.... a broken heart just covers it for me. Poor woman.

Deanna X

Bless you Ann.................I am so pleased you are still with us :))

(((((((((((((((((((((hug)))))))))))))))))) for you.

xx

Oh Ann... I didn't see that bit of your message there.x

Bless you darling and I for one am SO BLOOMIN GLAD that you are still here.

Deanna X

well thanks gang - I wasn't seeking sympathy for myself though - just trying to put forward the fact that they would have been thinking of nothing but themselves. Had they thought of their families they would not have done it. I only realised after how dreadful it would have been but I was so low at the time it was just me who was on my mind. My OH, son and mother were mortified as were my friends - no one had realised how very depressed I was, I didn't even know myself how depressed I was, I was one of those people who always kept a smile on my face - that's what people with clinical depression do. I was actually working at our local psychiatric hospital at the time and my boss and colleagues were trained psychiatric nurses - they never had a clue! That's how it is unfortunately. No one would probably have realised that these teenagers were contemplating suicide.

Do you think it could be something like a pack
made between them ,
as i believe they knew one another or their friends knew one of them and so on
Hazelx

the coroner, the police and some of the parents say it isn't a pact, but it sure does sound very strange indeed - I don't know if it has struck anyone else, but all of them were such beautiful looking people!!!

Yes Ann they were ,
i saw the photos of some of them in the paper
and they were lovely looking .
people that ive spoken to also say that it seems that theyve made a pact but as you say Ann the the police say no .

the chief police officer in the area was asking yesterday at a press conference for the press to behave more responsibly and not sensationalise these suicides and he layed most of the blame squarely on media for sensationalising. However, his plea has been ignored if today's papers are anything to go by

My thoughts go out to the families of these poor people.
I hope there is some light at the end of the tunnel as to why this is happening to so many in one place.
Janet

Ive just been speaking with my 16 year old daughter about all this and she said on one of the social internet sites (like my space) shes been on, there is a link to a site that shows you how to tie a knot in a rope for hanging yourself its beggers belief doesnt it? i was so shocked when she told me this id like all parents/carers to be aware of this.
My thoughts and prayers are with the families concerned.

my 14 year old daughter is on my space all the time....its firghtening....are the sights not monitered ??