Susan Klebold has been quiet for the 10 years since her son, Dylan, was identified as one of the two Columbine High School killers. Now Klebold is talking about her son, and she is discussing the topic we featured in last week’s eJournal: teen suicide.
“Dylan’s participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death,” she wrote in O, the Oprah magazine.
“Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide.”
If my research has taught me one thing, it’s this: Anyone can be touched by suicide. But for those who are feeling suicidal or who have lost someone to suicide, help is available—through resources provided by nonprofits like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the American Association of Suicidology.
