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June 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda It makes for confronting reading.
“I lost my sister six months ago. It was the hardest day of my life. Waking up that morning wishing it was all a dream and it wasn’t true. Wishing I could close my eyes and open them and everything would be back to normal but it wasn’t,” posted one Facebook user.
“My memory isn’t the best anymore but I know that from a young age I was beaten by my dad and mentally abused by my mum and dad,” wrote another.
Seeing a Facebook page filled with stories similar to this one seems like a risky idea but for two Melbourne high school students, it needed to happen.
Swinburne Senior Secondary College students Jessica Cummings, 17, and Thom Hartland, 18, started the “Coming Together to Prevent Youth Suicide” Facebook group after a number of their close friends killed themselves.
The three teenage boys each separately threw themselves onto train tracks around Berwick within six months of each other.
At least 12 young people have been killed on train tracks in Victoria since March, 2011.
Three weeks ago, Jessica and Thom were looking at ways to change things and decided to create an online space where people could talk about how youth suicide could be prevented.
Instead, it turned into a forum where people spoke openly about a subject which is often considered taboo.
“At the start, it wasn’t what we were expecting. We were having a forum about the way we could fix things,” committee member and friend Simone Adams told ninemsn.
“But in the past three weeks, there has only been one thing that I’ve deleted.
“People have been so amazingly supportive.”
The group, which now has nearly 15,000 members, saw a huge explosion of interest which led to the formation of a committee to manage the page.
Thom and Jessica are struggling to keep up with constant media requests, offers of donations and the influx of messages from kids wanting to tell their story.
“It has been very hard, especially for Jess because she has been absolutely inundated on Facebook with media, with people offering fundraisers and also kids telling her their stories,” Ms Adams said.
“It’s hard — she is still mourning.”
The newly-formed committee, which is made up of teachers, parents and students, is now moving to create a website where they can closely monitor feedback and offer more services to users.
Ideally, Jess and Thom’s aim is to have suicide education as part of the national school curriculum.
They have the support of Gembrook MP Brad Battin and are hoping to meet with the Victorian State Minister for Education, Martin Dixon, about their plans.
If you or someone you know is in need of assistance, the following services can help:
Lifeline: 13 11 14
Suicide Call back Service: 1300 659 467
Suicide Line: 1300 651 251
Beyond Blue:1300 22 46 36
Source: Facebook.
Author: Ali Best. Approving editor: Will Jackson.
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