New Zealand has a problem with youth suicides. There are too many of them. Way too many. We posted recently that a national newspaper had this to say:
The deaths from the Taupo Bay area in the Far North follow the Herald on Sunday's reports on a similar cluster [of youth suicides) in Kawerau two years ago. These, and the country's relentlessly high suicide rate, are now prompting calls for a nationwide suicide prevention publicity programme similar to that used to combat depression - and for government funding to be more effectively targeted.The secular world is finds itself in serious in conflict over young people taking their own lives. On the one hand there is this brute reality that every fibre of our being screams out that it is wrong. But, on the other hand, secular amorality also insists that there can be nothing immoral or unethical about the act itself. So we are filled with pity and guilt without any ethical warrant. We are all dressed up with nowhere to go. We know we are sad, but unsure whether we ought to be.
