Saddleback Church Says Rick Warren’s Son Has Committed Suicide

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155. Did it really have to go there?

Poor kid? He was not a 15 year old with hormones raging who thought it was the end of the world because his GF/BF or whoever broke up with him. He was obviously sick.

A belt and a chair could have accomplished the same thing. As could a bottle of bourbon and acetaminophen.

It was an adult making their own decision about how their time on this earth would end. Unfortunately people who are (not terminally) ill do not realize that there is a way out, or that life can get better. They do not realize the real victims are the family, even more so the one that finds the body.

Something tells me that by that age, suicidal ideation had been going on for quite some time. Why choose the day and method he did? Nobody knows. But can we let the body get to at least room temperature before we start politicizing the motive and method?

I could literally throw a rock onto the Saddleback property from my office parking-lot. I am not a fan of that or any church. But this is as private a matter as any other family medical issue, unless it comes out that he was pushed to do it because of institutionalized hate, or he was murdered.