What a tragic death and a beautiful way to honor their son’s life. He sounds like a wonderful person. We are losing way too many young people to suicide.

I completely agree, Michelledb. My condolences to this young man's family, friends, and wider community.

To Ton Yao Lee's family, I offer my sincere condolences. He was surely an extraordinary young man. I wish I had some words to ease your pain.

And I'm sorry for the effect that his death may have on so many Palo Altans—who may be suffering post-traumatic stress from our tragedies of the preceding decade.

This young man's death by his own hand at age 22 shows that our local high schools—which over the years have purported to impart "connection," "resilience," and "grit"—are still failing to lastingly cultivate health in the most vulnerable among their students.

Years of neglect of the real problem—neglect by the superintendent, the school board, and school principals—have left us scarcely better off than we were in 2009-2014, when eleven Palo Alto teenagers took their own lives.

What are the answers? Unfortunately the healthy, simple, practical solutions proposed by the "Save the 2,008" campaign were treated with disastrous disdain by our officials. Over the years "Challenge Success," too, has not been adequately welcomed in our schools.

Anyone who read the recent, lengthy front-page articles in the New York Times on the epidemic of at-risk teens in this country surely understands that we are a long way from understanding this crisis, that it continues to threaten us, and that it will not solve itself.

I am so sorry for the loss of this young man.