At the tender age of seventeen, my cousin’s life was ended. The uncanny similarities between my cousin’s death and the death of Al Sicherman’s son in “A Father’s Plea: Be Scared for Your Kids” brought back the horrifying pain I hoped never to experience again. I was overtaken with the all too familiar sorrow and pain Al Sicherman expressed over the death of his son. While using the dangerous drug LSD, …showed first 75 words of 1148 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1148 total…realize he is dead, and the best way for his death to serve a purpose is for me to tell about it, something I haven’t been able to do too often. We must let our kid’s know what can happen if they use drugs. “I wish I could tell you how to warn them so it would work, but I can’t” (124). We can, however, try. Both Al Sicherman and my uncle have.