Why do we bother living?

I read this article on Sal's page about teen suicide and I completely agree with it. The reason for all these suicides is because people feel that they have nothing and no one to live for. And maybe some people don't have family or anyone to really live for, but that is still no reason to take your own life. If you don't have family you make friends and if you can't make true friends you always have God. I'm really not trying to sound preachy but I was raised Greek Orthedox and we believe suicide is a sin and you'll straight to hell. So if you think it all the way through...its better to live and be a little depressed than spend eternety in a flaming infro. If parents or teachers or authority figures in general trully cared about kids and taught them the true meaning of life then maybe there wouldn't be so many suicides. All people really need is a reason for anything so instead of giving kids a reason to die why not give them a better one to live?