Very unfortunate news. Sad. Very sad.

I had a similar experience when I was in high school. Another school mate from my same high school lived across the street and two houses down. He was one year younger than I.

After a weekend night out he was pulled over for drinking and sent home without his car (police were more lenient back then). He must have been scared about how much trouble he would be in when his parents woke up in the morning.

Instead of shouting, the neighborhood awoke to sounds of his mother screaming as she found him dead the next morning. He had shot himself in the head. He was only 15 years old.

My opinion is that there still is a HUGE stigma on talking and communicating as a way to deal with our problems, especially for young men. They bottle emotions up inside and never deal with problems out of fear. Next time someone tries to open up and talk to us about feelings we should all do our best not judge and overreact, no matter what. Maybe slowly we can change the negative stigma....