Recent suicides at Yale College

wchatar2
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 17:21:50 +0000

Lets put aside the deeply personal issues here (alchoholism, child abuse in the family) and just put it on a religious level. Suppose a student is Muslim or Hindu (two among many religions that consider suicide a sin) and comes from a very religious family. Is it really acceptable for Yale, or anywhere else, to publicize to that community that this young adult committed a sin and thus shame the family? I think that in the age of the internet as well as heightened sensitivity to other cultures that that is not acceptable. I think that community supersedes the four years or so that a person may spend at a particular institution. Id be interested to hear a criticism of that because I do think that this is an important issue and one worthy of discussion.