On Blog Posts...
Message from Mr. Couillard:
In the future, please try to make your posts as complete and coherent as possible. Exhibit A: "Is suicide ethical..." While there are obviously some ethical issues involved here, a single one line blurb about suicide is more apt to cause concern (on the part of yours truly) than elicit a fruitful discussion on the ethical issues.
If there are any issues that you feel like discussing, please do not hesitate to let me know. That's why we do this job. It's not what we teach (though that part of its pretty cool too), but rather who we teach that matters most. You guys are the reason I can't wait to get to school in the mornings. And why all the time we put in doesn't seem to matter.
I know high school can be a rough time for some of you. (Personally, I think the "these are the best days of your life" line is merely marketing. You can be pretty hard on each other and on yourselves because that's the one thing in your life that you do have control over. And there is a world of stuff that seems of great importance now, that will be of little consequence in just a few years. But you have to get through this part to get to the good stuff. I know, because I was just as mixed up and confused when I was in your shoes. And this one thing I'd tell my "high school self" now if I could, was that that kid has no idea what the world holds for him. It's exciting, but he had no idea. And neither do you. None of us can say with certainty, what comes next or where our choices in life will take us. But if you trust yourself, and follow your bliss (more on this later), you don't have to worry. You guys are good kids, you are smart kids, and... if you guys stick together and depend on one another as we all must, you're going to be just fine.
Ok, that was more than I really meant to say, but maybe it was something that some of you out there might need to hear.
PS: Here's the article and the pictures from Karl Linn's military funeral at Culpeper National Cemetery.
Marine laid to rest
Pictures (See bottom of the page)
posted by AnnaEliz @ 7:57 PM
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I just wanted to post some things that I said in class....There are five stages of grief--denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This is the usual order of sequence. These feelings are natural and healthy (to a certain point). They are also common in all people and in all traumatic situations. Some situations cause more grief than others, but in the end, people experience the same feelings of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Grief for family and friends does not make suicide bad. It is a natural reaction that happens after ANY traumatic event. Therefore, we should not point fingers at suicide saying that it is bad because it creates sadness.
Another point I tried to make in class was that not all people have hope. For some people, happy times will never come. Some people do not have support from other family and friends. Many of us have gotten through tough times because our surrounding environment provided encouragement. Some people do not have this and will never be able to recover from their depression. This in turn makes life miserable for these people. I believe that in these cases suicide is definitely acceptable.
I am not very good as this whole getting your point across thing.....but I tried my best.
Mrs. Mansfield emailed this link to all leadership students (http://www.coastalwebdesign.com/WeSupportU.htm) but I just wanted to encourage everyone to actually watch it because it is a very touching portrayal of our troops, past and present.
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