Teenage Deaths
 

Over the weekend, a student at my school died of a drug overdose. Last year, a student committed suicide. Not to sound morbid, but I would be interested in seeing if any of your schools have experienced this, and if so, could I ask how often (ie. # each year)? This has become a topic that I'm interested in getting a few viewpoints about.

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Well DCA, it is very sad to hear about deaths and all. It rarley happens in our school (thank god) but we had a student die once a few years back. It was pretty sad seeing ad it's VERY rare for a student to die in this town. Hopefully this won't happen for a while. Just to remind you, best not to talk about deaths of teens like it's calming, not trying to offend you for any reason at all, just want to point that out.

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My school lost a student about a month ago. She died in a car crash. It was her, a 15 year old driver, and a few other friends. From what I heard they did a "rolling" stop at a 2 way stop sign and didn't see a car coming. And well there was, and the girl that went to my school was the only one killed. The others were mostly injured pretty bad. I believe the driver was the least hurt though. This is the first death at KHS in awhile as far as I am aware. The thing is in most high school aged kids deaths they are easily avoided, but kids being kids do stupid things.

-Kyle

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Let's see. There were two deaths at my school last year due to gang-related shootings. They didn't occur directly on school grounds though.

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A sophomore at my school died about 3 months ago in a car accident. She was 14, didn't have a learner's permit, and decided to go out driving. Unfortunatly she lost control and ran into a tree, and wasnt wearing her seatbelt. At the end of the last school year, a friend of mine was invovled in a pretty bad accident but luckily nobody involved was killed. The only other time that a death occured from a school I went to was when I was in 7th grade a schoolmate of mine's older brother died of an overdose. It is very frieghtining to know that someone your age died. Luckily it hasn't be someone that I'm close with.

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My high school usually had at least one person die each year.

WPI had a student die this year right after school started when he was out jogging and got hit by a car

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Last year, two kids in our school were killed. One in a car crash, and I believe one was shot. It was so tragic of an experience for many of my friends, and me also, though I didn't know either boy. I don't know the average a year, but this is all I know of. I'm sure we get that happening maybe once every other year or so. Hopefully less than having an average.

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At the school my team is based at we had a female student commit suicide (overdose) last month. It was in the morning, at home before school started.

There was also another suicide there several years ago when I was a student there. The coach's son hung himself from the bleachers the night before. I still remember going to school and seeing the body hanging from the bleachers, they made no attempt to cover it up while the police investigated. The worst part, his father was the first one to find him since he was the coach at the school. He knew his son didn't come home the night before and he was one of the first to arrive to work in the morning and found his son's car still in the parking lot. After checking the car out he headed towards the school and that's when he saw his son hanging on the opposite side of the soccer field.

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when i was in middle school a student i had talked to and hung out with a couple times jumped off a high building and committed suicide. other than that. no thankfully.

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In 2002, 3 days prior to graduation, my cousin died in a car accident on his way to work early that morning. As for other deaths in that same school, evulish may chime in, I know there has been others (at least one within a couple of years).

Within the county, at another school, they have had the worst luck of any school I have known. They loose several students a year, and in 2001 or so, they lost around seven or eight students in the one school year. That school has had to deal with great tragedy in great amounts over the past ten years or more now.

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let's see...

At Irmo, over the four years I was there, we lost (thinks) four students my sophomore year and the summer after, one student who I believe was in DJJ or some similar facility (but would've been at Irmo), and one special ed student my senior year.

Yeah. Not fun.

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No deaths have happened at our school since I arrived there thankfully. However, before prom last year we did this proble called "Every 15 Minutes." The program was about people who die while driving drunk, and evidently every 15 minutes someone dies while doing so. It was kind of morbid, but they got the point across, because every 15 minutes they removed a student from class and transformed them into a "ghost."

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I think we lost about ten students due to two drunk driving accidents last year. A close friend of mine was seriously hurt when he got sideswiped by an expedition, but thankfully he's okay now. Sadly, car accidents and inherint deaths are not too much of a rarity at my school. There have also been quite a few close calls with guns, but thankfully no one's gone off, although I have heard from a teacher that there are at least 2-3 guns confiscated each month off of students.

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A girl from my graduating class last year died in a jet ski accident about a month after graduation.

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For the original question .. not many in my school die a year .. (thankfully .. touch wood) ...

But, one of my really close friends died April 14th 2003 (the day after nationals so nationals this year were bittersweet). She was only 16 and the accident was caused by a drunk driver .. everyone in her car (with the exception of the driver) died .. being one 16 year old, one 17 year old, and two 18 year olds. The drunk driver (of the other car) survived with minor injuries.

She didn't go to my school or anything, so it is a bit different .. but I knew her through a diabetic teen group and went to camp with her and like I said, we were extremely close ...

So .. please everyone .. dont drink and drive .. it really ruins lives ..

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I went to a small private school in Ft. Lauderdale, we didnt loose any students but my sophmore year we lost the dean of boys right before graduation in a horrific car crash. It was hard for alot of us cause he was so close to us, especially me cause iw as in trouble alot. In fact that day i was in his office and he let me off easy on something i should of been suspended for, i was one of the last students he interacted with that day and for the rest of his life. He died later that afternoon it was horrible at school no one could teach and everyone was just in a daze.

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At my school we've lost one student that I know of in the past few years. About 4 years ago a student who excelled in nearly everything, and who was always looked upon as the "perfect" role-model got in minor trouble one day (I forget what the reason was). But he was taken out've class I believe, and he ran off and tried getting away from the school to stay out've trouble. He took a shortcut and ran across the interstate and on the final lane got run over by a semi. It hit our little town very hard. Especially since I am close to that family (which still hasn't recovered).

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Last February a student at the high school I went to commited suicide in February. She was a sophomore, and friend of many on the robotics team.

And in 6 kids in my class died in 7th and 8th grade - 2 of lukemia, 1 in a freak boating accident, and 3 in car crashes (1 was a drunk driving incident)

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This always happens througout around my neighboor hood and around where I live. Many teens around here get in car crashes and die cuz of their stupidity. Theres alot of drug overdoses and alchohol poisining. A girl that went to my high school that graduated i think in 1997 or 98 got attacked in here dorm or apartment at college campus and tried to fight back but couldnt and died. Now we have an annual community charity run/walk thing called The Shannon Macnamara (sp?) run, to benifit for the cause and to raise money to help her family and stuff. Then in 99 or 2000 a kid on the football team got paralized at practice (ran in head first on a pole of a fence) one day. We have alot of charitie programs to help him out and his family out too. Its sad that the most deaths happens to teens. It can be from stupidity or just an accident.

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When I was in junior high school one person died of an accident. While in high school three students died. Two died as a result of a car accident. The other committed suicide.

Suicide is a topic that unfortunately hits very close to home for me. On August 26th of this year, days before returning to college my sister committed suicide. She hung herself at my mother’s home in New Jersey. Paramedics were able to restart her heart after being onsite for over 20 minutes. At the hospital it was determined that she was brain dead and that every organ is her body was failing. The next day she passed away.

There were never any warning signs in her case and she was the last person anyone would have expected to commit suicide. She was a very popular person in high school and on campus. She never reached out or expressed any signs of depression.

You never fully understand what is going through the head of a suicidal person. However, it is important to remember that it is their decision. For the most part, there is nothing you could do to prevent it. You just have to find a way to celebrate their life and then gracefully move on.

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I just heard of a death of Mark Tsvok from Hall High School in West Hartford - a kid I knew although I did not go to school with him. I have never had somebody I really knew well die, and it just is wrong, shouldn't happen. I don't know if others knew him, sorry if I am breaking this news to you. Story here http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-t...eadlines-local Great kid, terrible thing to lose somebody like this.

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Not so much at high school - but at the Technical School I attended out in the Chicago area. Student was drinking during the day (when his roommates where gone, and he was supposed to be at work) and since there was no one else there he ended up drinking too much, puked, and choked on his own puke...:(

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No one I knew died durring high school or college, but I think 2 or 3 (out of ~2600) died while I was in high school. I know two died in a car accident, and there were probaly more.

Wetzel

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We've only had one death since I entered ETEP...some girl passed away after a long battle with cancer (can't quite remember which at the moment). I wasn't very close to her but I'd met her once...it was sad.
In Brazil you only get your driver's license after the age of 18, and most of the students have graduated by then, so we never get any problems with driving...i'm sure some kids get high now and then and we've got gang members around too, but fortunately so far we haven't had to deal with any fatal accudentes...