Casually Say I Want To Kill Myself

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Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in America.
In 2017 over 47,000 Americans committed suicide

There are no statistics I could find specifically on children/teenage suicide rate

but I am pretty sure it must be up, as children who are playing violent video games

now, where they are pointing guns at people, throw this out rather casually, as if they

are saying "I guess I will go to my room now." Horrifyingly real, people. Speak to

your grandchildren and children. Better yet, put those I-phones down, and show them you love them, and LISTEN to them.

I Want To Commit Suicide Something we never heard in the 60’s When I was growing up I Want To Kill Myself Something I rarely heard in the 70’s when I was starting a family I Want To Commit Suicide Something that popped up in the 80’s and 90’s on TV but still, quite rare to hear. I Want To Kill Myself For some strange Reason, said in JEST during the 2000’s. The joke is on us Only it is not a joke Children are saying it now As easily as the grass is green and the sky is blue today It flows off their tongues as casually as Let’s get pizza for dinner Parents Please talk to Your children Elementary school age children are beginning to throw out these words whenever they want their own way Or Things Are Going Wrong Once the brain hears it, The brain believes it That is why I Want To Kill Myself is not casual Not at All

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Panagiota Romios

Date: 11/8/2020 4:03:00 PM

I have known plenty of them. Teachers, psychiatric ward nurses Caren, parents need to have the kids call suicide prevention hotline. Parents are not trained for this and may end up with a corse. CA had 5000 suicides last month. I expect it to explode as we live in lockdowns, masked, afraid of something that is 99.9 per cent curable. ..... this effects the entire planet. We are all nutty. ))) we all need each other. Great topic.... Pangie xx

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/8/2020 6:15:00 PM

Thank you my friend.

M. L. Kiser

Date: 4/26/2019 5:26:00 PM

This takes me back to the 70's when two of my classmates, killed themselves; one, right before graduation. It wasn't iPhones or gaming then, it was in both cases, egotistical parents that wanted children to perform for their friends too often and to them children were a chore to avoid with their own chosen entertainments. Still, today's suicides fall victim to even more causes. A poignant pen that people should take seriously. Well done.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/27/2019 2:45:00 AM

Thank you M.L. It is weird, that you said this as the only suicide I was aware of in the 1970's was a senior classmate who killed himself due to being a throw-away child from a selfish mother who wanted nothing to do with him from birth.