Teen dies of alcohol poisoning at school - who's REALLY to blame here?  

All right. Now, I hate my school for a lot of reasons that I wont list here, but one of them is the fact that it turns regular teenagers into alcoholics because theres nothing better to do =|

So last year, we had some frat boy, party animal kid drink himself into a coma and died a few days later because he didn't know his limits. Now his parents went nuts and started suing INDIVIDUALS at the school - they're trying to sue the dean of studens, the presidents of greek life, 2 women who help with greek life activities... NONE of these people put the drinks in the kids hand, nobody knew what he was doing and yet somehow, nobody at the party is being blamed nor is the kid who ended up killing himself.

Now, I realize the parents are grieving but suing right and left won't bring their son back, nor are they suing anybody who deserves to be sued. None of these people were involved in their sons death, and not all parties can be monitored, not all of them get broken up by public safety and not all of them have somebody responsible there to babysit.

This just really frustrates me a lot, because my school is full of people like that and their parents. Nobody is willing to accept responsibility for themselves, and they're quick to point fingers at whoever is weaker than them and can't fight a lawsuit . I know I might sound a lot angrier than usual, but this completely grinds my gears because I know these people being targeted in the lawsuit, and they're petrified. They don't know what to do, don't know why they're being blamed and don't know what they're going to do if the suit goes bad. They're good people who never mean harm to anybody, but these kids parents are pretty blind to that.

Am I the only person who thinks that people have to accept responsibility for themselves nowadays? These parents cant accept that their son made a mistake, and while it was a fatal mistake, he was essentially a grown man who needed to be responsible for his own actions, and unfortunately he wasn't, and none of his "friends" could manage to take a beer out of his hand. Some friends =|.

We actually had another case like this at my school too, involving heroine using. THAT story is a lot more gruesome though, but it goes to show... this school is awful.

What do you guys think, anyone got any experience seeing stuff like this happen too? Even if ya haven't feel free to toss some opinions my way. I'm not here to judge what anyone thinks, I'm just here to read it :]