Suicide kills someone with a problem, but it does not solve the problem. Suicide causes great pain to those who are left behind. Suicidal people think that killing themselves will stop their own pain, but don't think of the immense sorrow that their deaths will cause in their parents, brothers and sisters, family, and friends. Those who have experienced suicide in their own families have often told me that life is never the same. It is hard for the wounds caused by suicide to ever heal.
Adults have more life experience than young people and they want to help.
Unfortunately, not every adult is open to talking with and trying to understand teenagers, but many are. Young people who sense that their friends are in danger should tell an adult, and if that adult does not take the situation seriously then the young person should go to another until the message is acted upon in some way. This is not the first generation to think in this way. Whether or not drugs have a direct part in a suicidal act, they are often part of the preparation for it. Drugs and alcohol use in the young tend to suppress the ability to deal with problems, while they at the same time exaggerate the magnitude of those problems.