Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.
That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.
The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.