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dotinthesky) wrote2008-02-20 02:40 pm
dotinthesky) wrote2008-02-20 02:40 pm
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And Then There Were None
With the news that another teenager has killed herself in the Bridgend area (bringing the total number of deaths to 17), I'm struck by how these events are starting to resemble a horror movie. I'm thinking of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, where teenagers are attacked by Freddy Krueger in their dreams, and their deaths are then explained as suicides. The chilling fact, for myself, is that 16 out of the 17 young people hanged themselves.
Because they nearly all died in the same manner, there's this lingering impression that they shared a secret we are not aware of (yet). Is there a website which they all went to for suicide tips (such as the initially suggested Bebo)? Is there one person which can be linked to all of them (even if it's one of the first who died?) Or is there some sick desire in each suicide to emulate the previous one, by choosing the same manner of death?
Like some commentators said, it's very likely that a combination of fame-hunger with isolation/depression has sparked the suicides. Kevin told me that when he was in high school, there was a strange spate of suicides amongst twins in his school (only one out of each pair of twin killing himself/herself). While growing up (in Brasil, Singapore and Hong Kong), I never knew of anyone who killed themselves. The few deaths that happened around me were from kids who had crashed their cars while drunk. If I had grown up in a small community (like these Welsh kids, like Kevin) my experience might have been different.
Because they nearly all died in the same manner, there's this lingering impression that they shared a secret we are not aware of (yet). Is there a website which they all went to for suicide tips (such as the initially suggested Bebo)? Is there one person which can be linked to all of them (even if it's one of the first who died?) Or is there some sick desire in each suicide to emulate the previous one, by choosing the same manner of death?
Like some commentators said, it's very likely that a combination of fame-hunger with isolation/depression has sparked the suicides. Kevin told me that when he was in high school, there was a strange spate of suicides amongst twins in his school (only one out of each pair of twin killing himself/herself). While growing up (in Brasil, Singapore and Hong Kong), I never knew of anyone who killed themselves. The few deaths that happened around me were from kids who had crashed their cars while drunk. If I had grown up in a small community (like these Welsh kids, like Kevin) my experience might have been different.
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Apparently the average figure for 130,000 population is 16 per annum. And that's excluding areas of high deprivation.
EDIT: Sorry, didn't see you link to this as well.
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Urgh.
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