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Since suicide happens so frequently in America, an attempt every minute of every day, and a success every seventeen minutes, the American public is pretty callous to suicide. But a murder, another murder, and a suicide does garner some attention, especially since one of the victims was a seven yrs old.

Chris Benoit, a professional wrestler, killed his wife, his son, and then took his own life last weekend. The killings were spread out over several days. How very sad!

The discussion on most televisions were about why; Some said it was roid rage, others said he was your typical male control freak who could not stand to lose his family. So he killed them.

The really sad thing to me, is that this will soon be forgotten when it fades from the headlines. We won't see anything on Oprah, or the other entertainment shows about this. This is too real life. They will continue to have shows about celebrities or eating the correct food to lose weight. And even if they had a guest who had once experienced a suicide (a celebrity of course) the focus would not be suicide. This was the case when Anderson Cooper's mom was on Oprah. Anderson's brother had taken his life years ago. The suicide only got a quick mention. I have emailed Oprah a couple of times to encourage her to do a week of shows on Suicide--guess what--not even a reply.

Why? Suicide is a dirty word. Suicide is too frightening to even mention on mainstream television. It can't be more than just headlines, or that would indicate that we as a society would have to acknowledge it exists. And then or course we would have to deal with it. There will be no chance for peace in our society until then! No peace!