Reports are coming through about a 16 year old boy who has jumped from the 4th floor today at the lunch break...

A friend has a daughter who attends the same school and the boy fell right in front of them. She is in a very bad state of shock and has been sent home...

A sad day for his family and friends...

Zuger Zeitung Article: Here

A horrible thing for anyone to witness. I hope that the boy's injuries are not fatal.

Oh dear so sad. Poor boy and his poor family.

In my school, it seemed to happen on a regular basis, kids trying to kill themselves and some succeeding in doing so, maybe one or two a year. It was completely hushed up to avoid the Werther Effect...

My thoughts are with the family and the kids who watched, I hope it doesn't push any of them to copy what their fellow student. The highest age of risk for suicide in Switzerland is 15 - 25.

Really? I didn't get any suicides on my school during those periods, I Can even say on the 2 years before/after my term. It would have been such an odd event...



at 15-25 I just can't imagine how can you get to that conclusion.

That's so sad. Sigh. It's a tough time for a lot of kids, actually.

Lemme tell you — and this happened for me by age 10 — when every other kid in your school mercilessly picks on you, day in, day out, making fun of everything you do, say, or wear, you start to consider… other options.

I didn't harm myself, obviously, but I can totally understand how someone can get to that point. (And even decades later, it weighs on you. When your self-confidence is decimated from years of such abuse, it doesn't really ever fully recover.)

Bullying in school is a HUGE problem in the USA and UK, and I think here as well, though it manifests a bit differently, since the Swiss way is so passive-aggressive (in contrast to the very overtly aggressive Anglo way).

My entire childhood, and teenage years I went through torture in the public schools of New York and New Jersey. That's why I escaped the US to Switzerland. People that went through trauma cannot handle living in the same geographic region....