c In general, memorials should focus on the life lived, rather than on the method
          of death

c Yearbook memorials should be a regular sized picture with a simple
          statement such as "We’ll miss you"

c If a school were to create a permanent or lasting memorial for one person,
          it would be difficult to refuse a similar memorial for another person.
          For example, a school that planted a tree for a student who died, realized

          this was needed also for a second death and then a third. The resulting group

          of trees came to be referred to as "the graveyard" by students. Another
          school had a "memorial tree" die during one dry summer and had to address
          the hard feelings of the family who thought the tree had not been given
           proper care

c There are many wonderful ways to support student’s as loved one’s do need
           to be remember, examples include: cards, food, kind words, work parties

           for relatives, scholarship funds, contributions to a favorite charity, flowers,
           or being remembered after the urgent time of the tragedy

c Parents and loved ones especially want to know people miss the person and
          there was great sadness at the loss; they also want to know people assisted
          the grieving friends

c Permanent or lasting memorials are not encouraged as a way for schools
          to remember someone who died as a result of suicide