Tonight's soccer match was rescheduled for yesterday and the tennis NLC was moved to Saturday to accommodate a funeral of a student from Plymouth. He chose to end his life on Sunday afternoon and the story has been resonating in the news all week. The Plymouth superintendent said that it was the first suicide that had happened since he had been in charge of the district and they wanted to take time to honor the student.
Since Cal started high school there have been four students who have committed suicide at Wawasee. When the first two happened Doug was reading a book called "The Tipping Point." It talked about the prevalence of suicide in smalltown, rural communities. Everything that he read discussed the importance of downplaying the event. Teenagers do not always understand that suicide is forever. They see the attention that one student gets for ending their life as a way to stop their own hurting. I worry that all the attention of this week will cause more students to see this as a viable option. I hope and pray that this is not the case.
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