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Thomas Murphy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
355 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

And this was 16 years ago.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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,

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

She just turned 16, had my ear buds in.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

She's 27 today.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

I said, OK, what is it?

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

And she live streams her suicide.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

I remember him telling me that.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

But it's not slowing down, Rudy.

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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

Living Your Legacy
Sweethearts & Heroes: Fighting Youth Suicide and Hopelessness

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