“I Don’t Want Her Name To Be Forgotten”

An important conversation with a parent after a devastating loss

Rian Van Gorp, with permission from the Van Gorp family

September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and today is World Suicide Prevention Day.

The last few years—the last six months in particular—have been tough on my Bondurant community with the tragic losses of three Bondurant-Farrar students and alumni who died by suicide. A freshman boy two years …