Cornell Update

[Anonymous]

That means in 20 years there were only 15 students that jumped. Less than one a year. Sad, but not happening at a rate of every week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That means in 20 years there were only 15 students that jumped. Less than one a year. Sad, but not happening at a rate of every week.

What a heartless comment. Fifteen bright, talented kids who are now dead, with no futures. That's fifteen families that are grieving for their lost sons or daughters, sentenced to grieve for the rest of their lives. One death too many. But fifteen suicides (all preventable deaths) is a tragic pattern and epidemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That means in 20 years there were only 15 students that jumped. Less than one a year. Sad, but not happening at a rate of every week.

What a heartless comment. Fifteen bright, talented kids who are now dead, with no futures. That's fifteen families that are grieving for their lost sons or daughters, sentenced to grieve for the rest of their lives. One death too many. But fifteen suicides (all preventable deaths) is a tragic pattern and epidemic.

Most colleges have had 15 suicides in 20 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That means in 20 years there were only 15 students that jumped. Less than one a year. Sad, but not happening at a rate of every week.

What a heartless comment. Fifteen bright, talented kids who are now dead, with no futures. That's fifteen families that are grieving for their lost sons or daughters, sentenced to grieve for the rest of their lives. One death too many. But fifteen suicides (all preventable deaths) is a tragic pattern and epidemic.

Most colleges have had 15 suicides in 20 years.

Would love to see proof of that.

[Anonymous]

NC State had a rash of suicides a year or 2 ago. Seven in one year?

https://www.theassemblync.com/education/higher-education/college-student-suicides/


This shows the T20 schools with a problem:
https://brokescholar.com/colleges-with-highest-suicide-rates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why exactly would you want your kid to come home? These incidents are unrelated.

I think it’s the use of they/them in the article that the OP finds intolerable.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, it’s a problem for many competitive colleges.
https://brokescholar.com/colleges-with-highest-suicide-rates

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough to hear it was a Cornell professor’s kid.

When I went to college, prof’s kid committed suicide as well. Maybe a lot id pressure. Should have gone away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough to hear it was a Cornell professor’s kid.

When I went to college, prof’s kid committed suicide as well. Maybe a lot id pressure. Should have gone away.

Two of the recent suicides at Princeton were also faculty children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Something that stands out to me are the pronouns used to describe this student. Guessing they had a lot more going on mentally than just worrying about classes at Cornell.

According to my kid at Cornell, deceased may have changed name recently and was distressed about election results given trans identity.

What a fking shame. We should stop freaking out and tell kids that the trump presidency means almost nothing in the long arc of their lives.

+1 Parents should help set reasonable expectations and reactions.

When he won in 2016, parents were freaking out and taking their kids down with them. Our oldest was 8 at the time and her friends were anxious wrecks. One parent even told her 8 year old adopted kid that she would do her best to protect her from the bad people who want to rip her away from her family.

Trans is a mental health issue. It's sad that this person didn't get help. There's a lot going on if the person killed themselves over election results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, it’s a problem for many competitive colleges.
https://brokescholar.com/colleges-with-highest-suicide-rates

This is inaccurate or out of date.Princeton for instance isn’t here but has had a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A little perspective here…and I’m. It trying to diminish a death by any means. But I attended Cornell University from the late 80s -early 90s and there have always been suicides where students who are overwhelmed with school or not getting the grades, have thrown themselves over bridges and gorges there unfortunately. So the death of this poor sophomore is nothing new. The university has always had to deal with these types of deaths from extremely high avheievera that are considerably hard on themselves on top of being in a rigorous school.

Another alumni here, graduated in the 2010’s. Agreed, it’s sad but there’s just a lot of pressure like any another competitive school (iirc MIT has a higher suicide rate than Cornell for example). Nothing I’d worry about as a parent unless your kid is showing signs of depression, in which case you should be worried regardless of what school they’re going to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough to hear it was a Cornell professor’s kid.

When I went to college, prof’s kid committed suicide as well. Maybe a lot id pressure. Should have gone away.

Two of the recent suicides at Princeton were also faculty children.

wow. what is going on with the faculty kids? someone should probably study that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something that stands out to me are the pronouns used to describe this student. Guessing they had a lot more going on mentally than just worrying about classes at Cornell.

According to my kid at Cornell, deceased may have changed name recently and was distressed about election results given trans identity.

What a fking shame. We should stop freaking out and tell kids that the trump presidency means almost nothing in the long arc of their lives.

+1 Parents should help set reasonable expectations and reactions.

When he won in 2016, parents were freaking out and taking their kids down with them. Our oldest was 8 at the time and her friends were anxious wrecks. One parent even told her 8 year old adopted kid that she would do her best to protect her from the bad people who want to rip her away from her family.

Trans is a mental health issue. It's sad that this person didn't get help. There's a lot going on if the person killed themselves over election results.

Transgenderism isn’t a mental health issue. Body dysphoria is.

[Anonymous]

(Gender dysphoria)