M.I.T. Is Not Responsible for Student?s Suicide, Court Rules

M.I.T. Is Not Responsible for Student?s Suicide, Court Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/mit-student-suicide-lawsuit.html

In the spring of 2016, Olivia Kong, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, had been barely sleeping, worried about not being able to drop a class she thought she would fail.

The next morning, April 11, Ms. Kong walked into the dark tunnel of a commuter rail station and lay down on the tracks. The conductor could not stop in time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/us/college-student-suicide-hamilton.html

Gee, IHS, maybe CSUF isn't so bad after all.


Ms. Holleran was the third of six Penn students to commit suicide in a 13-month stretch, and the school is far from the only one to experience a so-called suicide cluster. This school year, Tulane lost four students and Appalachian State at least three ? the disappearance in September of a freshman, Anna M. Smith, led to an 11-day search before she was found in the North Carolina woods, hanging from a tree. Cornell faced six suicides in the 2009-10 academic year. In 2003-4, five New York University students leapt to their deaths.

Soon after Ms. Holleran?s death, Penn formed a task force to examine mental health on campus. It also recognized a potentially life-threatening aspect of campus culture: Penn Face. An apothegm long used by students to describe the practice of acting happy and self-assured even when sad or stressed, Penn Face is so widely employed that it has showed up in skits performed during freshman orientation.

While the appellation is unique to Penn, the behavior is not. At Stanford, it?s called the Duck Syndrome. A duck appears to glide calmly across the water, while beneath the surface it frantically, relentlessly paddles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/stress-social-media-and-suicide-on-campus.html

Apparently more college students kill themselves than are killed by deranged shooters.

Will high school children start marching for suicide awareness?  Shirley you jest.

I went to CSU Fullerton.  We have tall buildings and jumpers.

I don't understand why people use such dramatic and unreliable means of suicide. Hanging, shooting, jumping, wrist slashing, pill swallowing, etc. are all unreliable and a failed attempt will leave you even more fucked up then you were before.

The only 100% painless and 100% effective method is carbon monoxide poisioning.

Light a hibachi in the corner of your bedroom and take a nap. Have a nice dream and never wake up.

Happiness said:

I don't understand why people use such dramatic and unreliable means of suicide. Hanging, shooting, jumping, wrist slashing, pill swallowing, etc. are all unreliable and a failed attempt will leave you even more fucked up then you were before.

The only 100% painless and 100% effective method is carbon monoxide poisioning.

Light a hibachi in the corner of your bedroom and take a nap. Have a nice dream and never wake up.

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Because they don't want to die, they want someone to give a shit about them.

Happiness said:

I don't understand why people use such dramatic and unreliable means of suicide. Hanging, shooting, jumping, wrist slashing, pill swallowing, etc. are all unreliable and a failed attempt will leave you even more fucked up then you were before.

The only 100% painless and 100% effective method is carbon monoxide poisioning.

Light a hibachi in the corner of your bedroom and take a nap. Have a nice dream and never wake up.

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In remote locations, with nobody around to rescue them, thousands of people have successfully hung themselves.

A bullet to the head is 100% painless and 100% effective, as is hanging, and jumping off a building.

Some family member could come home and remove the hibachi long before it delivered a fatal dose of carbon dioxide.

So your pretend "solution," laced with profanity, is no  solution at all, "Happiness."

Somebody should tell these kids that college is the best time of their lives, and they should try to enjoy themselves before the real world begins.  Sad.