How stupid : 17 year old committing suicide for love failure

I don't agree with what he did, but I can understand his strong emotions at that age. I mean when you are young you think that the love you are in, is it! You can hardly see graduation day, let alone something as trivial as another love. Young people are many times ran on and by their emotions. I know my relationship with my parents in high school was strained, and so if that is the case with this young man, they were probably far from his mind. I will keep this young man and his family in my prayers and if nothing else, maybe his unfortaunate circumstance can keep others away from repeating his mistake.

I remember what kind of hell I went through when I was 17...sometimes it still frightens me how did I get through...

Teenagers think that life is over if they are rejected. They are in a turmoil. They think that if they do not marry that particular girl, that no other girl would have them, and it is worse for the girls, they feel if they do not go with that guy, or marry that guy or even live with him or have his baby, that the next one will come too late like when they are too old (being teenagers they would consider even in the 20s as over the hill.) That is what teenagers are like. They go by what the life they have lived, not the potential their life would have. They have a shortened attention span. It is being a teenager and yes, he was very stupid and he may not survive or if he does, he may be in worse condition as he was before.

hi Sanjana.........Very depressing........Such incidents make me very sad. I pity those poor parents....How they must be feeling looking at their child in such a state. Why parents are no more important for children as soon as they growup.... Actually, the reason is that human body grows quickly, but the brain gets matured gradually, and till the person can gets matured enough to understand things....he has already made lot of mistakes........ I wish God had developed body and brain together at equal level.....and I wish people will use brains rather than acting dump in emotional attachments of heart........ I will pray for the boy, because I want his parents to be happy!!!!!

at seventeen what do any teen know about love this proves they are not ready for the over flow of feeling are emotion at this age.iam sorry what his family is going through iam so sorry

im saddened by this there are a lot of that stuff happening and its sad. Its upto to parents and school teachers and principles and couselors to step up awareness of this to prevent more of this. Today is time for people to help educate the young children of today to find out ways to dealing with this. We as parents have to do more to educate as well to prevent ur child from doing this. I can understand on how cruel people can be adults and ur teens. Sit down ur children and explain to him or her the difference between love and infatuation or puupy love as they call. Maybe it will save ir child

I agree with you that it was stupid. But teenagers do stupid things. Being a teenager isn't easy. I think it is even harder now then when i was a teenager.

My friend threatened to take poison if the girl rejected him and she acceded to his desires and became his girlfriend. He was a no-good guy. Maybe it would have been better if he just took the poison. Cheers!!

Teen years are always difficult. There is research out to show that our brains are not fully developed at this time. Emotions run high. Things can seem like the end of the world. I feel for the parents.

I find this very sad. This boy must have had a lot of powerful emotions that he was unable to handle and maybe he felt this was the only way out. At 17 your emotions can be all over the place and rejection can seem like the end of the world when it isn't. Its such a shame this boy did not realise this before he drunk the poison.

Something like that happened where I live. But I think in this case it was guy's parents who wouldn't let him date her. About three years ago, this guy who was going to my old high school was so depressed over it that he climbed to the top of my university's stadium's football bleachers. He then jumped off and killed himself.

His emotion is understandable though I'm not supportive of his behaviour. Sure, what the young boy did seems to be stupid in the eyes of grown-ups. while, from the point of a teenager, love is such important part of his life. Being rejected by his beloved is just like being exclued by the world. Apartment from regretting for the fade of a young life, maybe we should think about what we can do to help all the teenagers have better understanding on the world and the meaning of life.

Yes, it's very stupid. There's so many bautiful girls, I think he was very weak. Many people don't know how to live the life.

I'm not agree for you. He is right. That girl is stupid, idiot and cruely. Now i'm the same situation, she love me since last week. But now she change her mind.

Sanjana, Sanjana. I think you should first realise that all individuals are made differently. You and I cannot be the same, cannot think the same, etc. Lets go down to that tender age, being teens once again. I am not saying that what the 17-year-old did was right, but that's whats his age all about. Immature. We have to study the case correctly. Haven't you been 17? We are lucky we have supportive parents. If we went wrong, they would have corrected us gently. I am not so sure about this boy. It could be either way. When you get deeper with the teenagers, you'll understand them better. So I really don't blame the boy. One has to be gentle with him and support him as much as possible. He has to be told that this is not the end of the world. There is a big wide world out there with a lot of very nice girls. It will take him some time though and one has to be patient. I do hope they don't nag him.

[i]Hi sanjana, At this age, I would say, they really need good friends and needs to have an open communication with parents so that when they have problems, they have someone to talk too and will not think that its already the end of the world! [/i]

Maybe we should also consider other factors in this case. We did not know the whole story of that person. Some people committed this kind of killing for so many reasons. It might be because they lack attention and support from their parents, family or even friends. There are also some people who would just keep the problem within their self. Up to the point wherein they could not overcome anymore.

I guess we would not understand what went through his mind at that point of time. At this moment, we are rational, unaffected by emotions, that is why we call their actions stupid or senseless. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, when rationale flies out of the window, and left with only emotions, like pain, rejection, mental torture. The first thing in your mind at that time, is to stop or relieve the pain. Some people would drink themselves to oblivion; others? I believe, if a person is rationale, they wouldn't want to kill themselves, or hurt their families or loved ones by doing so.

I don't condone such actions myself, but it's quite judgmental to call it stupid. I wouldn't blame the kid. Maybe he's had more issues than that and he thought he couldn't take anymore. We only know what's in the news, after all, not the whole story. As for your question, no, I don't agree that it's stupid.

What a pity! Value your life!Not only for yourself,but also for those who love you!