It was his last school assignment, in which he had been asked to write about himself. Whirley said her son suffered from anxiety but she had no idea of the anguish he may have been feeling. After his death, she got ahold of one of his class papers. He even talked a classmate out of committing suicide once. Phil" by his friends because he liked to counsel others. She called him "compassionate" and said he was nicknamed "Dr. She described her son as the class clown who made everyone laugh. Nobody really expected it because he was so popular," said Whirley. Samantha Whirley is another mom who lost her son, Jacon Alvarado, to suicide. There is something that was missing to where he could have come to me on a deeper level," said Hedstrom-Pelger. I felt like we were close but I honestly think we should have been deeper. I did have a great relationship with Tyler. "He was very critical of himself, hypercritical. She said she shared a close relationship with her son, but if she could look back at the red flags, she would encourage parents to try to form deeper connections with their children. "He was popular, he was happy all the time, he was positive," said Hedstrom-Pelger. She tells us Tyler was about to start his Senior year, he loved marching band and music. Sheila Hedstrom-Pelger lost her 17-year-old son Tyler to suicide last year. It is a tragedy that has affected so many communities and shattered so many families. Last summer 17 students in the Valley killed themselves, and just in the last two weeks ABC15 Arizona has learned of at least four additional teen suicides at schools in Chandler, Mesa, and the West Valley. It's something many districts are now tackling head-on after losing so many of their own children over the past few years. Schools across the state are talking about a very tough subject this week: teen suicide.
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