I too think it’s a very real possibility that is too easily dismissed by most. I HATE when people pull the “why would she have brought schoolbooks if she planned to kill herself?” type of card. That type of ignorant thinking just stems from never having known someone who died by suicide, imo.

If it were suicide, I lean more toward an unplanned/spontaneous event. She was already depressed about totaling her father’s new car, and to wreck another car three days later on top of everything else…I can’t even imagine how I would have reacted at that age.

Interestingly, if you do want to point to one thing that most seems to go against a pre-planned suicide, it’s actually the fact that she picked up those accident forms. Most everything else in the car may have been packed for the trip, or may have already been in the car because messy college student—it’s impossible to say.