Bereaved family hopes their loss helps others

Late at night in an off-campus apartment in Boulder, Sandy and Art Dye's son was blinded in a narrow tunnel of depression. He had stumbled, and with no friends or family there to pull him up on that November 2007 night, 21-year-old Jeffrey Dye committed suicide.

From their home in Steamboat Springs on Friday, Sandy and Art Dye said there were subtle signs their son, a 2004 graduate of Steamboat Springs High School, was battling depression. He stopped reporting to work the week before his death, and he was telling friends about painful emotional problems, but no one recognized the changes in behavior as suicidal signs.

“If Jeff had been standing there with blood gushing out of his arm, no one would say, ‘Gee, why don't you go to the emergency room tomorrow,'" Sandy Dye said.

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