Important date to remember.

16th April 2007: Cho Seung Hui shot 32 students at Virginia tech Uni after that killing himself with a 9mm Glock.

Describe as very looney person, he used to write a violence theme play for the poetry classes. His fellow friends describe him as having a brutal eyesight and instinct.Cho has an inferiority complex aiming his hatred by criticizing the “rich kids,” “debauchery” and “deceitful charlatans.”

5th April 1994: Kurt Donald Cobain commited suicide living a suicide note “I love You, I love You”…..

Having battled drug abuse, depression and self esteem issues, Kurt’s death still came as a shock to those whos lives he changed by driving the change of music styles out of the eighties and towards the more emotionally aware rock scene of the ninties, bringing reality back to a genre that had lost its way.

Lessons to learn:

What is the treatment for a person who is suicidal? What roles do medication, counseling, and spirituality play?

The primary treatment for depression — the main precursor to suicide — is both medication and talk therapy. (In Islam, the five times daily pray is a sort of talk therapy. By taking the ablution is a type of medication that remove the depress mood and anxiety)
Neither works as well alone as they both do together. Spirituality is an inner resource that is helpful in dealing with any problem, but when serious depression is present, people are most often not in touch with their inner resources, no matter how strong, how intelligent, or how spiritual the person is. So, the primary antidote for suicidal behavior, in my opinion, is the presence of caring people in one’s life who know when something is wrong and who will take appropriate steps to help and support the unstable person when it is needed. (Excerpt from an interview with Kurt cousing Berverly Cobain)

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