fairly typical reasons a teenager might think of taking his own life. What brought it to a head was that his girlfriend had dumped him, and he thought he would never get over this great catastrophe. After a while, he asked a couple of girls to go out with him, girls he thought he would really like, and they both turned him down. Harry was no different from all teenagers. He wanted to be popular and involved in a social group, and there just didn’t seem to be a way to break in. Feelings of loneliness