Where am I going with this? Well E! News’ Rebecca Macatee wrote a piece yesterday about Lee Thompson Young‘s death.
And at the VERY BOTTOM are the people who want to demonize the person who made the choice to end their life. At its least productive, which is where most of the conversation lingers, people throw around assumptions and what they think happened. At its most productive, people talk about their experience living with mental illness: what it’s like, what it’s not and what helps them carry on. Lee’s death started the conversation we always have but never sustain long enough. Plus, it puts a face on mental illness, and it becomes harder for us to ignore this REAL problem.
Well, death is devastating no matter what form it comes in but there’s an extra gut punch to suicide because people ask “What happened?” but the answer is seldom clear. I was shallow then and I’m shallow now (-_-).įinding out that Lee died on Monday was incredibly sad since not only was he really young (29) but he took his own life. I used to watch The Famous Jett Jackson and swoon because Lee Thompson Young was SO CUTE! The teen me would just get my life from that show, and I couldn’t even tell you the plot.
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