URGENT URGENT – U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 3-18-18 – 9:15 p.m. ET –
Another young life is lost in Marquette County
Our U.P. lawmakers personally know the pain of suicide – yet have done nothing to restore mental health funding
The U.P. is in desperate need of more mental health funding, and we as a population must remove the stigma from depression so that people can seek help without fear of judgment and scorn
By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433
(Marquette, MI) – A Northern Michigan University student died in a dorm on campus Sunday, the latest victim in a rash of young suicides in the Marquette, MI area this year.
Emergency officials were called to Spooner Hall on Campus late Sunday evening because a student hung himself. CPR was performed, however was not successful.
The student is believed to have been 21-years-old. U.P. Breaking News has decided to withhold the exact dorm number and floor.
Among those responding were the NMU Department of Public Safety, Marquette Police department, Marquette Fire department, and paramedics from U.P. Health System-Marquette.
NMU officials are expected to have grief counselors, and other services available to students affected by this tragedy.
The name of the student has not been released by officials. The investigation continues.
There were two alcohol overdoses reported at U.P. universities on Sunday including one at NMU following the suicide.
At East McNair Hall at Michigan Tech University, a 21-year-old female was taken to the hospital early today after what were reported to be “stroke-like” symptoms. Details of those three incidents are not known – but all involve college students.
For 35 years, this reporter was like others in the U.P. – and did not report suicides.
However, in recent years we have changed our opinion because ignoring the problem has not helped bring back mental health funding to the U.P. – that was slashed by current and former governors.
With poverty, drugs, alcohol and social pressures getting greater – the problem keeps growing.
The U.P. suicide rate has been skyrocketing in the past few years – as thee have been at least two NMU students have taken their lives this winter – and another young man in his 20s was recently found dead behind a Marquette school.
In the past month there have been at least four gun suicides in the U.P.
Upper Peninsula Breaking News by Greg Peterson 