Teenage Deaths

[Alex Pelan]

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."

[Joshua May]

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.

[Paul H]

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

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.

[MikeDubreuil]

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.

[Steve Howland]

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.

[Matt Attallah]

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...

[Wetzel]

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

[tribotec_ca88]

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...