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Suicides hit close to home;
spurred duo to help others
by Vida Goldgar
Rabbi Daniel Syme will never
forget August 30, 1975. On a recent
Monday evening, he told a primar
ily student audience at Emory
University why: “That was the
night mv brother Michael commit
ted suicide. He was only 20 years
old."
For Iris Bolton, executive direc
tor of The Link Counseling Center
in Sandy Springs, it happened a
little later: “It was nine years ago
that my beautiful 20-year-old son
made a choice to end his life."
Out of their grief and the eternal
questions “Why?” and “Could
something or someone have pre
vented it'.’", both have spent the
years since learning everything
they could that might answer those
questions. Rabbi Syme said. “I
watched as my parents became old
overnight...There is nothing more
1 can do for Michael, but 1 decided
I would personally do whatever 1
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could to spare others the trauma of
loss by suicide."
He was instrumental in the for
mation of the Reform movement’s
Task Force on Youth Suicide, the
only such effort by any religious
body.
Mrs. Bolton returned to the uni
versity in her efforts to understand
and to learn to help others. Alter
nating her work at The Link, she
spent four years earning a master's
degree in suicidology at Emory.
The statistics on suicide—es
pecially youth suicide—are stag
gering. Estimates are that 6,000
young men and women between
the ages of 15 and 24 kill them
selves annually. That does not
include many more “accidental"
deaths or drug overdoses which are
believed, in reality, to be suicide.
In its Feb. 24 issue, Time maga
zine cited the cities of Omaha,
Neb., Plano, Texas, and Spencer,
Mass., as scenes of what they
called “cluster suicides." Taking
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one’s own life has been variously
cited as the second or third leading
cause of death in adolescents and
young adults. According to “The
Jewish Connection,” UAHC's
national college newsletter, the
suicide rate among high school and
college students tripled between
1955 and 1983. Experts estimate
that for every completed suicide, at
least 100 other young people make
the attempt.
Both Michael Symesand Mitch
Bolton would seem to have had
much to live for. They were both
talented musicians. Michael
played 20 musical instruments and
had played backup to such as John
Lennon and Frank Zappa. His
brother called him a “fine actor
and a promising artist,” for whom
everyone predicted a brilliant
career or series of careers.
Rabbi Symes is still uncertain
what drove his brother to suicide.
What he does believe, and Mrs.
Bolton agrees, is that in many
cases, suicide is a preventable
tragedy. “It can be prevented,” he
told the audience, “by caring
people you among them." He
said, “What everybody needs is
something to live for ..a sense of
meaning and purpose and u-
niqueness as an individual." Any
number of things, he said, can
arouse a feeling of hopelessness:
“whether it is the death of a parent,
sibling or friend, or the end of a
love affair or failing a course in
school. Sometimes suicide seems
the only wav to respond to an
inability to deal with pressure.
Rabbi Symes blames the media,
too. “Television implicitly tells us
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