Thomas Murphy

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355 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 15 Jan

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And this was 16 years ago.

And now we know that the suicide rate with young people in middle schoolers alone have tripled since 2007.

3,041 high schoolers attempt every day in this country.

And I think the thing that hit me, the story that I was kind of alluding to initially was, as this work started to unfold,

A buddy of mine, I was driving with my daughter.

She just turned 16, had my ear buds in.

She's 27 today.

And my buddy sends me a video link and says, hey, man, you got to watch this right now.

I said, OK, what is it?

And it's a young lady named Caitlin Nicole Davis from Cedartown, Georgia.

And she live streams her suicide.

I remember him telling me that.

And I looked over at my daughter, who was just a couple of years older.

And I said to him on the phone, I said, I'll never watch that.

And he said to me, he said, Tom, we're at war.

He said, we're at war with this thing called hopelessness.

And I watched it, very, very difficult, very challenging to watch 45 minutes of a 12-year-old doing the unthinkable.

But it's not slowing down, Rudy.

It's getting more and more difficult for young people.

It's never been harder to be a young person than in the world today.

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