Suicide day
Iloilo City
Sept. 11, 2015
I was waiting for ride this morning at Luna Street when a caravan of vehicles, mostly ambulances from government and private hospitals, streamed awailing, on their hoods were streamers announcing the celebration of "International Day for Suicide Prevention".
Yesterday, TV reports had one young man found hanging at the toilet. His mother said he had been depressed after his girlfriend jilted him.
This morning, over at Aksyon Radyo, a father was also found hanging by a nylon cord in his room by his kids.
Police investigators were inclined to conclude both cases were suicide. The mother of the second suicide victim was quoted as saying that her son had a fit of tantrum the night before scaring his kids as he slammed anything he could lay his hand on.
He runs a vulcanizing shop at his house in Sara, Iloilo but still asked his mother, a peasant, for money "to buy food." The old woman stopped giving him money after discovering he used it to buy shabu instead of food for his family.
His trantrum followed his mother refusal to give him money.
Happy international suicide day!
Sept. 11, 2015
I was waiting for ride this morning at Luna Street when a caravan of vehicles, mostly ambulances from government and private hospitals, streamed awailing, on their hoods were streamers announcing the celebration of "International Day for Suicide Prevention".
Yesterday, TV reports had one young man found hanging at the toilet. His mother said he had been depressed after his girlfriend jilted him.
This morning, over at Aksyon Radyo, a father was also found hanging by a nylon cord in his room by his kids.
Police investigators were inclined to conclude both cases were suicide. The mother of the second suicide victim was quoted as saying that her son had a fit of tantrum the night before scaring his kids as he slammed anything he could lay his hand on.
He runs a vulcanizing shop at his house in Sara, Iloilo but still asked his mother, a peasant, for money "to buy food." The old woman stopped giving him money after discovering he used it to buy shabu instead of food for his family.
His trantrum followed his mother refusal to give him money.
Happy international suicide day!
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