Suicide of a Student of Glasgow University Because of a Wrong Grade

Honestly the video starts out too boring for me to continue to watch it, especially since from the title it sounds like a sad loss of a life due to a bump in the road that wasn't even a real bump.
My thoughts were we need to encourage resilience in young people. When I was doing foster care and reading a lot of parenting books, there was one about resilience and having a plan B. What I remember from the resilience was that if your child brings home a 98 score on a test that the parent should not ask why they missed two, but they should instead say something like 'wow, 98 right! How did you get such a good score?' and that caused the child to think of the positive things they did to do well and they feel more confident in themselves.
 

One time long ago when I was just leaving an Indian Casino a man approached me, asked to bum a cigarette. He said he had lost $60,000 that night.
The next day I heard in the news that this same man had committed suicide. I guess that solved his problem, but I could think of better ways.
 
This is nothing new, this happens a lot.

I know that University very well indeed.. I was born and raised very near it.....

When I was at school we went to a party invited by the 14 year old host... everyone had a good time.. and the very next morning, headlines in the local paper, that he'd hung himself after we'd all gone home... after getting bad grades.....we his friends had no idea at all that he was upset in any way

So..it's been going on for a very long time..
 
Last edited:
This student was supposed to graduate with honors on the day he committed suicide. He didn't graduate because the school had told him a few months before that he didn't have enough credits. He was mentally in terrible shape about that, and the school did not offer him their mental health services.

Assuming this information is accurate, it does beg the question about why he didn't vigorously protest this. The university has admitted their tragic mistakes afterward. I just don't get how anyone could basically just lie down and take it. Thus, I think the situation with his credits triggered his suicide but something else was terribly wrong. Of course all of this is just a guess on my part.

Also, since he was at home when he died, and not at graduation, it seems his parents knew why the school wouldn't let him graduate. Why did they do something much earlier?

If something like this had happened to me, I would have loudly and vigorously tried to resolve it. If the university wouldn't play ball, I would have hired an attorney and sued them, again loudly and vigorously. And I would have publicized it on social media -- everywhere-- again, loudly and vigorously. It's a freaking injustice!
 
jujube said:
Back in my freshman year in college, there was a girl in my dorm who attempted suicide because she didn't get into the sorority of her choice.

She survived but was very sick and had to drop out.

I can't grasp that mindset. Suicide has never entered my mind.
Click to expand...
It's really simple. She didn't get into the sorority. This triggered something in her that ended up making her decide to die. It likely had something to do with being rejected - a response, really, to past events. Or maybe with self-hate.

I just don't think people usually kill themselves over trivia. Triggered by what looks to outsiders like trivia - yes.
 
We have had Marines that were discharged due to lack of mental or physical abilities commit suicide, either while waiting to be discharged in boot camp or shortly after arriving back home. It’s just that important to them.

Marines that are failing in boot camp are not immediately discharged. There is a second chance opportunity.

On the outside, there is always a reason why people commit suicide. We just don’t always see the signs.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top