Teenager, 17 yrs, committed suicide through Internet...

hubersrj said:
Did she actually commit suicide on the internet, or just like everyone else in the world, was able to obtain information on suicide via the internet?

I know I'm side-barring here, but are we now going to blame the internet for "making" this girl commit suicide much like a lot of the metal bands were blamed for making teens commit murder and what-not?
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Great point!







She took advice from the wrong people. Sad, but true. Taking depression advice from depressed people isn't the smartest thing one can do.
 
Ria said:
Hi Ron.

I got side-tracked in middle of my post above, so hadn't realized you had posted.

Well, I'm not suggesting the internet is to blame at all. I am just relaying something that touched me and choked me, that I found very upsetting, that was all.

I had to mention the internet, because that's where she did her talking etc, as her mother said.

As I also said, I just wanted to let other parents here, know about this tragic happening too, being a parent myself, just for info really. I always ask other parents to let me know of tragic circumstances that happen to children if they hear about things, because how else are we to know what kind of things are there that can affect our children?

My son is my world and without him, I would be empty.
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No worries...

Can you send me the link for this article? I've heard this story before, but it's used over and over several times...the age/sex/location of the teenager has changed a few times as well.
 
hubersrj said:
No worries...

Can you send me the link for this article? I've heard this story before, but it's used over and over several times...the age/sex/location of the teenager has changed a few times as well.
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Thanks for reading exactly how it is Ron.:)

This isn't from a link I'm afraid - the mother was interviewed on TV, so not sure of a link as well as her interview this morning.
 
Dana said:
I guess death is easy. Living is hard...
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im sorry but i kinda have to agree with dana on this one. it is sad and tragic that she commited suicide and put her parents thru hell and i don't believe that she is an idiot for doing it, but on the same hand, would you commit suicide just because someone told you how to do it? i live with depression too and the thought of suicide has crossed my mind but i am stronger and believe that things will get better. im not going to end my life because someone tells me too. i would have died a long time ago
 
Dana said:
Shes made her parents go through hell? and why because someone she never even knew online gave her details on how to commit suicide? She should have talked it out with her parents instead of hiding it from them. I'm sorry cruel or not, I find no pity when a person ends their own life because they can't seem to handle it. I've never experienced "dpression" but I'd like to think I'd be of sound mind and have enough confidence to know how to handle the situation.
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If you haven't experience depression, known anyone who has, OR studied the sickness, it's much harder to grasp that these people are SICK beyond what anyone can imagine. They live in a deep, dark, sad world. There is no quick way to "make them realize" how they are and it's certainly not a "swift kick in the pants."

Also, trying to get into a teen's head is like trying to hack the security of the Pentagon's secrets.
 
Dana said:
Sorry if I sound cruel :(
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dude yes it is cruel, I know from experience that it is the most loneliest feeling in the world, you end up thinking that people really don't care/want to care about your problems, and in the end you stop caring, and if you don't care, why should other people, it's a downward spiral really, no rational thought goes into it whatsoever, you really think that friends family would be better ofwith you dead, that the person in particular may have thought they wre better off dead, it's rationally irational thought
 
DaveM said:
dude yes it is cruel, I know from experience that it is the most loneliest feeling in the world, you end up thinking that people really don't care/want to care about your problems, and in the end you stop caring, and if you don't care, why should other people, it's a downward spiral really, no rational thought goes into it whatsoever, you really think that friends family would be better ofwith you dead, that the person in particular may have thought they wre better off dead, it's rationally irational thought
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:homo: with Dave's comment to Dana that his comment is cruel....and insensitive.
 
Elle Estoopidez said:
If you haven't experience depression, known anyone who has, OR studied the sickness, it's much harder to grasp that these people are SICK beyond what anyone can imagine. They live in a deep, dark, sad world. There is no quick way to "make them realize" how they are and it's certainly not a "swift kick in the pants."

Also, trying to get into a teen's head is like trying to hack the security of the Pentagon's secrets.
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You know what Elle - reading your post^^^^you would have been good helping out on my team when I worked with suicidal people. Not just suicide, but victims of bullying too etc, of all ages.

Excellent message and very well put together and you actually read what was actually there. :)

I will read the others now, but this was the first one I saw, when I got to this page - it's where the page stopped at when clicked on here.

Rep for you!
 
bong_express said:
im sorry but i kinda have to agree with dana on this one. it is sad and tragic that she commited suicide and put her parents thru hell and i don't believe that she is an idiot for doing it, but on the same hand, would you commit suicide just because someone told you how to do it? i live with depression too and the thought of suicide has crossed my mind but i am stronger and believe that things will get better. im not going to end my life because someone tells me too. i would have died a long time ago
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Again, it has been mis-read.

I never said she did that because she was told to.

Through her depression though, obviously feeling at the end of nowhere, she felt like she had nowhere to go. All of a sudden, people are putting more ideas into her head and through her seeing things in such a foggy state, what they posted in wherever it was on the internet, about the hanging etc, she had then bbeen convinced - it probabvly happened over a while and then she was probably feeling even worse and really felt there was nothing for her, not wishing to upset her parents, so inthe end, she carried out what had been engrained into her brain.
 
I believe this doesn't happen very often (killing yourself because of online people), compared to your standard suicide. And I would say that's because generally people are smarter than this. Even depressed people.
 
DaveM said:
dude yes it is cruel, I know from experience that it is the most loneliest feeling in the world, you end up thinking that people really don't care/want to care about your problems, and in the end you stop caring, and if you don't care, why should other people, it's a downward spiral really, no rational thought goes into it whatsoever, you really think that friends family would be better ofwith you dead, that the person in particular may have thought they wre better off dead, it's rationally irational thought
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This is very true also Dave. All people need if helped in time, is someone to bother to listen and support them and help give them back what those who put them in that state, stripped from them.
 
I feel very sorry for the girls family and friends. I do not believe that anyone can make you commit suicide ! But they sure can help push you over the edge ! I allso feel that unless they have gone through depression you have no idea what a person is going through. and if you live with true depression you are not strong and certainly do not in any way believe that things will get better!! Once thoughts of committing suicide enter your mind ;you are almost at the point of no return. It takes over and your world has become a deep dark place ; that you can not climb out of . It hurts so bad you just want it to end !!! You are so far gone at that point that it does not even cross your mind what your friends or family will feel. At this point you need professional help (I feel ). Also the support of family and friends. And yes you can make it back
 
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