Teenage suicide, any suicide is hard to fathom and even worse for friends and family left behind who are left wondering if they could have done more or given more time to the person or understood more. You feel like that after a bereavement anyway regretting not spending more time together.

When I had just left school and started work a local boy a year or two older than me committed suicide sometime in the early 70's he was good looking, new job, popular with everyone he had everything going for him. One day in the local newspaper it said he was found in the families garage in a car with a pipe threaded through the window dead. No-one who new him well could believe that someone like that would do that.

Suicide pacts with teenage couples it is hard to understand why both would decide to do that. Some girls have hormonal problems and if very young with those problems emotionally might not be unable to cope as well as a full adult might everyone is different. Talking from experience there were many times that I felt like swallowing packs of painkillers myself. Boys keep things inside more and even though it should be easier to open up to teachers and councellors these days some might not still be able to talk about problems or whatever is hurting them, depending too on the circle of friends they are in with. Perhaps some teenagers dissasociate themselves from the reality of death somewhat because they see it so often in films or tv. I remember songs like Leader of the Pack or Terry by Twinkle although the subject is not about suicide as such there was an unrealistic notion about death.

It is so sad for the families.