Maybe it's a low blow, but I'll leave that for the referees to decide:
"A Newton boy left this life without a note or clue; City mobilizes after heart-rending suicides" by Kathleen Burge | Globe Staff, March 02, 2014
Roee Grutman’s family, who moved here 14 years ago from Israel, believes the stress of an overwhelming course load and an American obsession with elite universities contributed to his death, though they recognize there could have been additional — still unknown — factors....
Roee Grutman’s family moved to Newton from Israel when he was 3 and his older brother, Tal, was 5. His brother, Tal, believes Roee and his peers started worrying about college plans too soon, years before they needed to apply. Tal graduated last year from Newton South and, disillusioned with the narrow American path of higher education, joined the Israeli Army. He is home for a month to mourn Roee....
I think any loss of life is tragic. Maybe the kid discovered what Zionism really is and couldn't live with selling into it the rest of his life.
Roee is buried at nearby Or Emet cemetery. His father, Mordechai, visits his grave early every day. His mother and siblings go later, talking to him, bringing him flowers.
As a mother, Galit cannot stop thinking about how she might have saved her boy....
I'm sure Palestinian mothers think the same thing about their "suiciders."
Until last fall, Newton high schools had not seen a suicide in many years. Then, on Oct. 5, Newton North senior Karen Douglas, 18, was found in the woods in Natick after taking her own life. Less than two weeks later, Newton South sophomore Katie Stack, 15, also died by suicide. The two girls did not know each other and both had struggled in the past, Douglas with bulimia and Stack with depression, according to their mothers....
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Also see:
Body of missing Newton teen found
Forum, fund planned in Newton after deaths of two teens
Newton parents discuss teen suicide
You be the judge. I've already rendered my verdict.
