In 2nd grade a construction worker jumped from the roof of the adjacent building during our classes. Everybody said it was an accident but I just so had happened to look at him, because I was so bored. He looked down, took a deep sigh and deliberately jumped. Kinda hard to forget, even if I was only 3 days away from my 8th birthday.
The next two stories haven't happened on site, but they kinda show how poorly suicide is handled in Polish schools.
A good pal of mine ctb'd at the final year of highschool. To say that the school's reaction was brusque would be a massive understatement. The guy was pretty lost. He indulged in drugs with many sketchy people and never did well at school. He was somewhat of a maverick, but he had a beautiful soul. Ofc I won't claim that I fully understood him, since we actually haven't spoken much during his last year. After he hanged himself in the swamp, a couple of shitheads attended his funeral, blasted some cringey underground rap and drank a lot. Teachers haven't said much - they mainly cynically commented on how big of a shitshow the funeral service was. There were no mental health advises whatsoever. Everybody then just joked around and he was very quickly forgotten.
Some time later a girl from three grades down killed herself in the bathroom because she was bullied at school and came from a divided, nearly bankrupt family. I didn't know her, but her death was overshadowed by a car accident that happened two days before in which a way more popular and successful student had died. There was a very brief, like 5 minute long school assembly during which three students were forced to say that suicide ain't the answer for anything. The principal just stood there and kept looking at her watch. Then it was business as usual, and I literally eavesdropped on half of her class talking shit about her fashion choices and awkward behavior. Needless to say, it was pretty repulsive.
