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# Divorce and Suicide
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2748/
- Published: 2005-10-19T15:15:44.000Z
- Updated: 2005-10-19T15:15:44.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Family, #wpChunk

Former Detroit Lions quarterback, [Eric Hipple](http://lions.foxsports.scout.com/2/392385.html?refid=400&ref=thedailyeudemon.com), lost his son to suicide in 2000\. He now tours schools, talking about teenagers' susceptability to the suggestion of suicide. I found this admission rather startling:

> Hipple and his wife, Jann, college sweethearts, divorced when Jeff was 5, and his sister was 7.

> She and the children moved back to Utah, where the Hipples had met at Utah State University. She remarried and divorced two more times.

> "It's traumatic for kids to go through a divorce," says Hipple, who admits to being depressed as a teen and who has a history of mental illness in his family. He grew up in Lubbock, Texas.

> "He went through a lot of changes as a young child," Hipple says of his son. "The first thing that made an impression on me was how he had to figure out who Dad was. I think that's very stressful for a kid. He finally figured out I was the real dad, the biological father, and the others were his stepfathers."

[Link to Story](http://www.freep.com/news/health/hipple19e%5F20051019.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).