Four Palo Alto teens dead in last 6 months spark vigil
(NEWSER) - After four teenagers from the same high school committed suicide on the commuter rail tracks that run through Palo Alto, Calif., in just 6 months, parents set up a daily vigil at the offending crossing. When the train comes through—every half hour—there's a nervous pause in the chatting, coffee, and donated pizza to look up and down the tracks, just to make sure. They're there until the last train of the day, at 1am, to prevent "misuse of the tracks"—they never use the word suicide, to avoid romanticizing the deaths. More»
