SPEAKERS URGE SUICIDAL TEENS TO SEEK HELP.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer SAUGUS - Dar and Dale Emme brought the painful story of their teen-age son's suicide to hundreds of Saugus High students Thursday, sharing the horror that created so much pain and, seven years later, a suicide prevention Suicide prevention is an umbrella term for the collective efforts of mental health practitioners and related professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide through proactive preventive measures. program known throughout the world. The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program was born within hours of Mike's 1994 suicide in the family driveway in Colorado, his mother, Dar, told the silent audience Thursday. The program emerged from the words she repeated to her son's friends - talk to someone when you're in pain. ``Adults don't really talk about suicide. Sometimes they think that talking about it will cause it to happen,'' she said, her husband, Dale, nodding. ``But suicide's not about death, it's about pain. Unrelenting pain that is inside of your being.'' Within weeks of their son's death - he shot himself in his prized Ford Mustang For other Ford Mustang models and concepts, see . The Ford Mustang is an automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company, originally based on the Ford Falcon compact.[1] just seven minutes before his parents arrived home - yellow pieces of paper with local numbers were circulating among Denver teens, an attempt at suicide prevention for those in pain, a campaign that spread across the country. ``A friend of mine attempted suicide a few years ago,'' said Will Shipley, a Saugus High senior, after the assembly. ``(The Emmes) were right. It's not about wanting to kill yourself, it's about a cry for help. Getting help is talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to someone and hearing that you mean something.'' Dale Emme explained that cards passed out to the audience that advised people to stay with, talk to and get help for a suicidal person are lifelines. ``It gives you that tool to ask for help when you just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to say,'' he said. ``And if someone gives this card to you, we don't ask you to be a counselor. We ask you to be a link, a link to the rest of that person's life.'' Tenth-grader Jessica Simon said the hourlong hour·long or hour-long adj. Lasting an hour: an hourlong television episode. Adj. 1. assembly hit home. ``It reminded me of my own personal experiences. And if more people get involved, it could help start a club at this school for people who don't know about the program,'' Simon said. ``I admire them so much to be able to come and say this.'' Parents, students and community members are invited to hear the Emmes speak tonight at 7 in the Valencia High theater, where they will share the story of their son and his suicide's impact on their lives. For more information about the program, log on to the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. chapter Web site at www.yellowribbon.scv.org CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Dale, left, and Dar Emme visit Saugus High on Thursday to discuss suicide prevention. (2) Substitute teacher Eric Clarke Eric Lionel Clarke (born 9 April 1933) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Labour member of Parliament for Midlothian until he stepped down at the 2001 general election. He had been an opposition whip from 1994 to 1997. gets a suicide awareness yellow ribbon from Saugus High 11th-grader Jennifer Duffy. John Lazar/Staff Photographer |
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