Quote Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah View Post

I feel very bad for someone that commits suicide and all their family members. The person that is depressed enough to actually take their life is feeling hopeless and helpless and feels there is no way out for them.
It is an overwhelming and debilitating chemical imbalance in the brain that causes them to believe that nothing in their life is good so why would they feel like staying on this earth.
It's a feeling that can't be described or felt until a person actually experiences it.
You're right Terry - most of the time it is a chemical imbalance - but what those girls in Philadelphia did leaves me baffled. Yes - the girl who lost her boyfriend was hurting - she even wrote in Facebook about how she didn't want to go on without him - but never let on to parents or adults, how she was feeling. And then to talk two of her friends into doing this horrible act with her, and telling two more friends what they had planned??? - why??? The two friends that she told said they thought they had talked her out of it and never told anyone that might have been able to get her help,. There were so many signs - if only someone had done something about it.

The people that were in any way involved in this - even total strangers - will forever be changed. Not only family, friends and relatives, but what about that train engineer, the Amtrak and local police who had to clean up the grizzly accident scene, and possibly even some of the passengers on the train. And I speak from experience when I say that people even remotely connected will be affected. My ex was a cop with Amtrak for many years, and he saw more than his share of bad scenes - something that went with the job - but none the less traumatic.

I've just been troubled by the whole thing - very upsetting to me. Maybe it's because I have a beautiful granddaughter just a couple of years older than these beautiful girls were.............. So very sad.