Neto wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:30 pm
Although this is what I expected to be the cause of death, I am now very sorry to hear that she took her own life.
Her grandmother was her legal guardian, so I wonder what all other trauma she had already experienced in her young life
(due to absent parents, I mean).
Oh, to protect the children from such horrible things!
[Where is the face icon that is crying, as I am now?]
Neto,
One glaring fact overlooked in this tragic case is the chronic high suicide rate in Native American populations.
Suicide is a horrible outcome that is feared, isn’t understood.
i believe you are correct to think about “other trauma” in this child’s life.
you’re also correct to point out (as usual) political activists are QUICK to jump on the tragedy for self-promotion.
White House used+included. Political blocs have no soul. They CLAIM and exploit souls.
“Suicides Among American Indian or Alaska Native Persons —
National Violent Death Reporting System, United States, 2015–2020”
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7137a1.htm
All children+teens have problems, experience trauma on varying levels. Our culture loves to idealize children, pretend they are safe.
They never were. God provided parents+community to nuture, protect, defend from all the many hardships that exist.
Sometimes the caretakers are perpetrators of wrong. God created a mother’s womb to be a safe place.
Imagine a troubled teen in a community where suicide may be known, even common?
Suicide is a cry for the pain to end. That’s not a bad desire. Suicide is the wrong answer. “A permanent solution to a temporary problem.” Children+teens are vulnerable to making poor decisions.
Most of us survive our youthful poor decisions. Not all survive.