IN just a week, the Cagayan de Oro’s Maharlika Bridge (formerly Marcos Bridge) claimed the lives of two young troubled persons who jumped into its strong current waters underneath in an apparent suicide.
However, unlike the 17-year-old Ainsley Jan O. Delos Reyes, a Grade 11 Arts and Design student of Liceo de Cagayan University ― who disappeared for three days before being found in the sea waters of Macajalar Bay ― the still unidentified 19-year-old was immediately retrieved by the personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard after his broad daylight suicide jump on Monday morning.
Unfortunately, after showing a sign of life, the young man died an hour later in a hospital.
Authorities have withheld the name of the suicide.
His family was reportedly disappointed after a local mortuary went on conducting an embalming procedure on his body without their proper knowledge and consent.
Some netizens shared on social media after learning what had transpired that embalming a dead body is not allowed in Islam religion.
“Pwede sila mapasakaan og sumbong ana sa hingtungdan kay walay pananghid,” one netizen commented.
Whatever, the subsequent suicides involving teeners have caused alarm in the local community.
Concerned individuals are calling on the government to do something that could mitigate incidents like these.
Some even volunteer to make themselves available via online conversation for the depressed ones to talk with them about their personal problems.
“Sa lahat ng makakabasa nito. Pag sobrang bigat na nang nararamdaman ninyo at ang naiisip niyo nalang solusyon ay tapusin ang lahat talk to someone (else), talk to me. Wala akong kwenta kausap madalas pero willing akong makinig sa inyo na di kayo hinuhusgahan. Di kayo nag iisa,” wrote one volleyball player Sean Taneo on his Facebook account along with the picture of the second suicide being rescued by the Coast Guard personnel.
