I heard that another young man took his own life just recently.

Before I retired I was working full-time at the Embassy and part-time as adjunct lecturer in two universities and one college. I successfully counseled suicidal and depressive students, and prevented them from going over the edge.

I still do that today, but now only on my own terms. I incorporate psychism and magic in my counseling. So, yes, for fundamentalist parents it is a choice between their conservative beliefs and taking risks with a potentially dangerous man. However, it is also a choice between having a dead child and having a living one.