Over the past few weeks, I have learned about the suicides of several teenagers. The senseless deaths of these children breaks my heart and makes me hold mine just a little tighter each day. When I look back at my high school years, we rarely heard of a peer committing suicide although it did happen it seems to happen a lot more often now. To think that kids with their whole lives ahead of them cannot find enough joy, love, and most of all hope to hang on just one more day absolutely breaks my heart.
This card went to the family of an 18 yr old named Jarrod, he committed suicide because he was being bullied. Another girl, Parker, took her life this weekend possibly due to overwhelming issues at home. Noah took his life because of an onslaught of medical issues that came on fast and the pressure as a teen was just too much. Young lives with bright futures who thought they had no where to turn and no hope. Heartbreaking.
If you know someone who has had a child die no matter the cause of death or the age of the child there is a organization that has free resources available to them. The group is a national nonprofit group called Bereaved Parents of the USA. There are chapters all over the country; they have people to talk to, newsletters, monthly meetings and yearly gatherings. The national website is www.bereavedparentsusa.org from there you can find many resources and the local chapters.
People are hurting! So sad and you are right, we do need to embrace our children more! We also need to continue to pray for our youths!
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Thank you. This week was just really hard hearing about these kids, I already knew about Noah, but so many young people just overwhelms me.
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