Girl, 13, hangs herself after becoming obsessed with Emo 'suicide cult' rock band| News | This is London

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1. • MishaA

   poor kids...

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2. • DarkNemesis618

   @MishaA yeah, it really is a shame, as hard as it can be, sometimes kids need to realize that they need to seek out help, and hopefully feel comfortable talking with their parents. It was hard for me growing up, but I knew I could always talk to my parents about anything.

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3. • KlamathTravMan

   Some of the emo music out today is so damn sad and depressing. I'm getting very tired of it.

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4. • mortalwind

   Emo Is a bogus term just like Grunge. Bogey men if you will.. The variables that go into someone doing anything much less self murder are endless. It is such a horrifing thing to lose someone to Suicide that people seek comfort in finding somthing solid and understandable to cling to as the reason why. Then they may channel the helplessness they feel in starting or joining a cause that directly deals with the issue that they have decided was the biggest contibuter to the suicide in question. I have dealt with suicide and agree its the worst thing one can deal with in this life. My sympathys go out to the survivors of this death.

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5. • mortalwind

   What I ment by the cumbersome comment above is that I feel her new found love of emo was the symptom not the cause of her deppresion, and hopelessness.

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6. • calinazaret

   @mortalwind I agree, but at the same time I know that people who get really caught up in a "movement" sometimes do things they wouldn't otherwise.

   I used to dress up like this girl when I was in high school, but I never cut myself as part of "emo initiation." I think the parents should have done more than make her promise not to cut herself again. They should have realized the dangerous path she was going down and told her to cut that shit out, got her into counseling and suicide watch. She was just a 13 year old girl; impressionable. If she were 17 or 18, she may not have listened to her parents, but I think at 13 there's still a chance.

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7. • Dubz4sho

   There are two schools of thought...

   do you vote it up so people will be aware of it, or do you vote it down so it doesn't get publicity and some other kid does the same thing.

   Sad stuff... I might just leave it alone.

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8. • SallyD

   It's tough for everyone during those years. Thoughts of suicide are pretty common, but I always knew that I was strong enough to survive it and I'd never ever try to kill myself. Being afraid of pain/death is the number one reason but I also feel like it's cowardly to give up and take your own life. I'll never understand why people do that...

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9. • yoda

   @mortalwind excellent comment.

   mass media and governments and often irresponsible "parents" are always quick to point the finger at anything "weird" for this kind of thing...remember all the stuff like this about bands such as Judas Priest (Stained Class) and of course acid (causing people to jump out windows...that happened ONE TIME)...

   the bottom line is you are right, the dark music is a symptom.

   watching the "nightly news" is super depressing, and so is a lot of stuff the government pushes down the throats of kids (including tons of drugs)...and this article in the MSM right here will cause a lot of suicides, just like Columbine caused a lot more copy-cats.

   it's easier (and sells more papers) to blame something vague like "emo" music, which to her, was probably very therapeutic, like heavy metal and Sub-Pop ("grunge") was to my generation (X)...

   you don't suppose the occupation of Iraq is causing people to be sad? the loss of rights in this country? the economy? the lying liars who lead "us"?

   nah, couldn't be.

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10. • cGt2099

    "Two weeks before her death, she started following U.S. band My Chemical Romance."

    Here we go again
    Same shit different bucket
    They've tried to pin this on Manson. Result? FAIL
    They tried to pin this on Judas Priest. Result? FAIL

    Two weeks of listening to any band, even one as sucky as MCR, does NOT cause suicide for crying out loud. This girl must have had issues she was dealing with for much longer than two weeks.

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11. • SilentJay74

    @cGt2099 Listening to MCR makes me wanna kill myself. Just because their music sucks. But Srsly this is a sad story. My condolences to her family.

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12. • katharinec

    @mortalwind i agree with both of your comments A LOT A LOT!!

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13. • katharinec

    @SallyD It's not cowardly. Just because one doesn't understand why someone would do something doesn't make it cowardly. It's almost always the symptom of such immense pain, such immense immense pain. It's not the sort of thing that's fair for someone else to call cowardly, imo

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14. • katharinec

    and "emo initiation?" give me a break!

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15. • SallyD

    the most cowardly thing one could ever do is to take a life. but that's just my opinion.

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16. • yoda

    @katharinec i would say suicide in some cases is actually brave, but in most, it is a little chicken.

    i've only been suicidal once or twice, and only briefly, and was glad later i didn't do it. but i can understand it.

    basically, Pain (or Fear leading to pain) causes your world to shrink and it becomes all about you. seeing that "you" doesn't truly exist, you have nothing left.

    hey doublehead? you around? got a nice quote for us on this about the ego and such???? grampa???

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17. • yoda

    @doublehead think you could respond to the above with a nice Tao Te Ching quote or something like that?

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18. • katharinec

    @yoda the experience of suicidality is of course different for everyone who experiences it, and different throughout the experience and different from experience to experience within an individual who experiences it more than once. the way you describe it can certainly be one way that it manifests.

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19. • yoda

    @katharinec all of reality comes from within.

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