"Family Values"

Sin & Death in Mormon Country: A Latter-day Tragedy

http://www.affirmation.org/suicide_info/sin_and_death_in_mormon_country.shtml


April, 1986

By Mark A. Taylor*

On March 2, 1982, Kip Eliason, age 16, distraught and filled with self-hate over his inability to stop masturbating, committed suicide. Before asphyxiating himself, Kip left his father a note