<p>Keymom, I’ve rethought my initial response and think I will talk to them. The lesson from this tragedy is so clearly to get help if troubled and I cannot exclude the possibility that they won’t possibly find themselves in that position one day. And if a discussion can encourage them to get that help, I will do it.</p>
<p>My initial reaction to this story, quite honestly, was that it was so horrific I couldn’t bear to burden them with it as it’s so completely beyond their comprehension. But life changes for kids and in a few years they may be in very different situations.</p>
<p>I have also had a conversation with my father in law, who’s a psychologist and teaches at a very small liberal arts school in Wisconsin, a bubble if there ever was one, and I was stunned to learn that they too have experienced suicides in the last year. And this weekend I read the following story about upward trending of college suicide:
[A</a> ‘national crisis’ of student suicide touches Minnesota | StarTribune.com](<a href=“http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/71119337.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU]A”>http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/71119337.html?elr=KArksUUUoDEy3LGDiO7aiU)</p>
<p>I also read Mr Siebenaler’s post and found it eloquent and moving. Heaven help him and his family.</p>