Peter Cronkite, Grandson of Walter Cronkite, Dead of Suicide at 22

[KansDem]

6. "...who would have graduated next month, ..."

'''popular, intelligent, and engaged in both academics and athletics."

I'll never understand this. When I was a senior in high school, a classmate committed suicide just a few months before graduating. I didn't know him but we attended the same junior high as well as high school. I remember he played drums and performed a solo at our ninth-grade annual talent show.

That was 1971 and I thought at the time, "Why now? Why not wait a couple years or decades. Give life a chance." I mean, you graduate high school and there's a whole world of opportunities waiting for you; a whole lot of paths to take. There's college or voc-tech school; or working a full-time job while you're deciding what to do. You can get out on your own with an apartment. Or you might meet that "special someone" with the same wisdom gleaned from the same experiences you had. Give it a chance!

I just didn't understand it...