RIP: Former UCLA runner and Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier Daniel De La Torre dead at 29
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So sad. Seems like he was only 27 or 28.
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Tragic wrote:
So sad. Seems like he was only 27 or 28.
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Here is a UCLA press release on his death:
We changed the title to make it more descriptive, adding in his age and his UCLA ties.
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Horrible news. My heart goes out to his family and friends in this time of grieving.
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RIP Emilio Daniel De La Torre. I was always inspired by the workouts he would crush on Strava.
It is being reported he died by suicide. In my experience, when someone dies by suicide or overdose, no one wants to talk about it. It needs to be talked about. There is help available for those who are struggling.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers services to talk to a skilled counselor. If you are feeling distressed and need to talk to a counselor, please call 1-800-273-TALK (8255).150 -
Talking about it merely causes more people to consider it. Suicides surge in geographical areas after one happens.
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EDLT wrote:
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline offers services to talk to a skilled counselor. If you are feeling distressed and need to talk to a counselor, please call 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
I thought that 988 was the new number?
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dr. of everything wrote:
Talking about it merely causes more people to consider it. Suicides surge in geographical areas after one happens.
If true, then maybe we need to be sensitive about how we talk about it, but not talking about it all is the worst possible choice. There was a pretty talented local runner from my area who killed himself this spring, and we went through the same thing you're suggesting, everyone would get angsty if you tried to mentioned suicide. After a few weeks, the family settled on a little white lie that actually he was just cleaning his gun and it went off accidentally, despite all the evidence suggesting otherwise. They even took that story to the media which repeated it, and now you'll get people wagging their fingers at you if you suggest it was suicide. And so the upshot is that nobody learned anything from the poor young man's death. Nobody is talking about the signs you might see that a friend is suffering, nobody is talking about prevention, nobody is sharing the hotline number or any other resources that could help someone, and so forth. The young man killed himself and everyone's anxiety around the subject and their choice to keep quiet or even believe a lie about the circumstances of his death might make them feel better momentarily or avoid having a difficult talk, but I'm convinced an opportunity to save lives was lost because of that anxiety and because of that unwillingness to have a hard conversation.
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