European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 20 Ann Landers dear Ann Landers i am a professor of chemistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada and have taught about 2,000 pre med students during the last 33 years. I would like to respond to the 20-year-old College student whose life has been wonderfully trouble free and who now has a secret death wish a wanting a a to die while she still has a fall the chips in her Corner. You arc planning to enter medical school where the acceptance process is often arbitrary and the Competition is somewhat cutthroat and unethical. After 20 years of achieving All your goals As a super achiever you would rather die than fail at something. Your fear of failure is rooted in the belief that those whose acceptance and admiration mean the most to you will not love you if you fail. I am going to suggest something that will be a Shock. Forget about being a super achiever. It is making you miserable and causing you to wish to die. Pick another path. Plan to marry and keep your marriage vows a until death do us then be a stay at Home mom. Your children will not be As you Are manic about superficial Success and wishing to die for fear of failure. Their Success will be in valuing themselves because that is what you will have taught them. Y Gordon Freeman dear professor Freeman thank you for a unique response. Thousands off people wrote about that letter but your approach was different from All the others. Read on dear Ann Landers 1 am a 21-year-old student who identified strongly with that Young College girl who wants to die. 1 understand exactly How she feels because i too want to die and done to know Why. I am a College student who was once addicted to Al monday january 6, 1992 today s crossword dear Abby dear Abby i received a set of matched Luggage As a Christmas gift from a close relative. When 1 opened the packaging the odor of stale cigarette smoke engulfed the room. On further inspection of the Luggage i discovered Motel receipts and an empty miniature liquor bottle the Luggage had obviously been used. I feel insulted and Hurt that the giver assumed that i would gratefully accept a used castoffs As a gift. My questions to you should i write the traditional gracious thank you note or should i acknowledge the deception _ no name or City dear no name v. A set of matched Luggage is a splendid gift that should serve you Well in the years to come. But it was thoughtless of the giver to have sent it to you without checking the Interior. Make no mention of the fact that Cohol and drugs. I am 100 percent clean and sober now and intend to stay that Way. I would never kill myself but i lie in bed at night trying to figure out How to Check out of this world without committing suicide. 1 wish i had cancer instead of my Mother. I wish i had diabetes instead of my sister. I wish i had aids instead of a Young Friend i know. I have no answers for the girl who wrote but i did want her to know that she is not alone. _ Rockland from Indiana in a a teen Ager who understands the 20-year-old who secretly wants to die even though she has everything going for her. I Don t actually want to die but i keep wishing i would have an Accident that would land me in the Hospital for a few weeks. Why because i have always been the Center of attention and when i am not in a miserable. Being in the Hospital is a great Way to get attention and that would make me very Happy. From Jacksonville Fla i Hope that Young girl who has a death wish gets the help she needs because she really does have a problem. If she were in her right mind she would know just How precious life is. In a 23 and want desperately to live. I am fighting like a Tiger to do just that. 1 did t wish for cancer but i have it. I would be the happiest person alive if god would Grant me the years to see my two children grow up. I am doing everything in my Power to cooperate with the doctors who Are trying to help me beat this cruel and ruthless disease. Dear readers. You have just read a sampling of some extraordinary and thought provoking mail. 1 agree with this Young Mother from Florida. Anyone who has Good health and a everything to live for yet wishes to die is in need of professional help. C creators Syndicate inc. It obviously had been used and acknowledge the gift with a gracious thank you note. Dear Abby now that the great american smoke out is Over How about a great american sex out using the great american smoke out formula a if you Are having casual sex now a quit. If not Don t Start. A keep your sexual activity within your marriage a emphasize abstinence. 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