Gunn High School is Palo Alto is taking measure to prevent another suicide by train by a youngster from their facility.
A Jezebel blogger notes the steps they are taking are crucial ones:Parents, teachers, and kids at Henry M. Gunn High School, attended by
three of the victims, are doing everything they can to lessen this
risk. Students have created a peer support group, t-shirts that say,
"Talk to Me," and a no-suicide pact. Teachers are giving out their home
phone numbers, and parents are following advice to ask their kids
directly if they would ever consider suicide.
[...]
Usually when a private citizen commits suicide, family and friends
grieve, but the wider world hears about the tragedy through a small
notice in the paper, if at all. But just as trains bring together
people whose lives wouldn't ordinarily intersect, a suicide on the
tracks has a collective impact: it's an oddly civic death, one that
becomes an entire community's to analyze and mourn.
Because of this, the Palo Alto train suicides seem uniquely suited to a communal response. Gunn High School's programs are a start.
Read the entire post on "cluster suicides" by train in Palo Alto at Jezebel.
