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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find these threads so inappropriate. Someone lost a child and you all want to gossip about it. Taking on someone else's trauma as your own. Gross. Most blogs block comments on posts reporting suicide.

Op go get some help for you and your kid.[/quote]

+1. This poor kid and their poor family.  May you vultures never know. [/quote]

Honest question. Do you not see any value in knowing about this loss so that parents can discuss it with their children? The students are already talking about it. It's well documented that suicide within a community can increase the risk of other suicides, so these events are something a parent, especially a parent of a student who is already struggling with mental health, should be aware of. [/quote]

Schools notify actual parents of these incidents.[/quote]

I'm a UMD parent and I was not notified of this event. I heard from my student. [/quote]

You SHOULD not be notified of this event as a UMD student parent. [/quote]

Why not?   How do you know if this news would affect a UMD student?  Someone with issues may not just tell their parents (or anyone).  This could save additional lives.  Not informing parents doesn't make the issues go away
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In today’s day and age, colleges should inform the community including parents of undergraduate students when these sorts of traumatic events occur.

I recall the brother of one of my sorority sisters murdered both of their parents while she was at school. She had to tell us what happened and bore that burden alone. We tried to support her but didn’t know what to say or do. I remember that decades later and I don’t remember her name because I didn’t know her well.[/quote]

Poor thing, that’s horrific. [/quote]

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