Teenager suicides

Soxfan, excellent comments.
Parents do need to set a good example and kids need a solid ground so when they get hit with these sort of decisions with their friends and boy/girl friends, they have something in the back of their mind to fall back on. Friends get weird.

Trust, accountability and reliability are equally important for parent and teen.

It baffles my mind to try and figure out why this happened.

No, we cannot follow our teenagers around but we can start teaching them (by example in everyday life) at an early age about accountability and self control. Then you just hope and pray. Yes, they will make some little mistakes, hopefully they will become adults without too much damage to self..

I am juuuuust wondering here... just a thought, perhaps the girl was pregnant? She was only 15. Maybe she was afraid to face her parents that were against her dating this guy that is "too old" (19) for her.

My daughters were not allowed to date until 17 and we had to approve of the guy as well... and boy did the guy get "the speech" even if he was taking her to the local Subway for a sandwich.

This is just such a sad story. It breaks my heart that something, maybe a small issue, unraveled.
Our teens (everyones) think we (parents) are annoying but they do not want to disappoint us, really. They secretly love us and they want our support and love, unconditionally. But remember, who is the boss? We are.
Sorry for the rambling... I am still just so in shock.... I have many good wonderful friends that live in SR and they are just devastated with this horrific tragedy.