Teenage Deaths

[Matt_Kaplan1902]

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.

[Cory]

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

[Jay H 237]

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.

[greencactus3]

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.

[Ashley Weed]

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.

[shyra1353]

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 ..

[Ryan Albright]

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.

[miketwalker]

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).

[Allison K]

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)