One the one hand, I think suicide in young adults and teens is mostly the result of poor impulse control, a lack of wisdom/experience, and a lethal cocktail of hormones and chemicals royally fucking these poor kids over. It's hard to understand the breadth and richness of life ahead of you when your experience with it so far has been so small. I get why they do it, really. I feel like at every opportunity folks should seek out these kids and try like hell to make them realize that many of us were there once and that life DEFINITELY goes on. Such wasted potential.
On the other hand, I feel like suicide in non-mentally ill adults over 25 isn't really my business. People often have their reasons, and I feel like most of them understand the points I previously laid out. They know what they're doing, and I'm not quite sure It's my right to interfere, especially if I don't know them personally. I tend to believe that a "right to die" extends to all mature adults, not just the terminally ill. Some people just don't like living. I'll never understand why, but then again I want to live as long as I physically can without being a burden. Life is awesome, and in the end it's all there really is for us here.
I'm very sorry to hear about your former student. Nobody should die over something so petty and temporary (and in the end, it's all temporary).
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