Oh dear - so sad

[sir.prize]

A TEENAGER has today been found hanged in Bridgend - the 19th victim of a suicide spate in the tragic town.

Sainsbury's shopworker Sean Rees - described as being "happy-go-lucky and always smiling" - was found hanged by his family at 7.30am this morning.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/arti cle1065518.ece?EMC-Bltn

[Beads]

That is very sad sir.prize. I wonder why on earth young people keep committing suicide in that town.

[sir.prize]

Lots of questions need to be asked - and quickly.

[Beads]

It's really worrying - where will it all end?

[I Love Snow]

Someone has to find the link before there is another one.

[123everton]

I don't think there is a direct correlation to these tragic events.
Teenagers these days love melodrama they want challenging relationships and tempestuous affairs they want every day to be like Eastenders.
When someone kills themselves in this way all their friends come together and talk about it, each account will be ever more gruesome and gratuitous.
To a mixed up kid to be the centre of such attention, to be so widely talked about (even by dying) can seem attractive.
I'm no psychiatrist but it seems like a form of Munchausen's Syndrome by proxy or more succinctly, death.

[Supernick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

These kind of events are unfortunately not a new phenomenon. The hardest part is that there is in all probability, NO link. Teenagers on the whole are much more emotionally unstable, and unable to deal as effectively with feelings of grief and depression. If you add in some rather irresponsible media coverage and you create the conditions required for a spate of copycat suicides.

What parents and the media need to stop doing is sitting back and demonising social network sites, or emo music, and instead learn that there is a degree of responsibility that needs to be exercised in the reporting of these incidents, and education of their children

[Mamjet]

Maybe something supernatural is going on - see Nightmare on Elm Street or The Ring for details.

[DarkMajes71c]

Having had a friend commit suicide during my teens I still cant see the attraction. If anything Dan�s death got us all talking again where many of us had fallen out over petty things previously. Perhaps there is an individual known to all these teenagers who is skilled with hypnosis? Or perhaps the teenagers in the area need something to do which will unite them more as a community as it is the support from your friends which gets you through the bad times.

[keyplus90]

Although I agree with what Everton 123 said but I would like to add one very important factor into it. That is family factor. Unfortunately some time due to genuine financial problems (which majority of us are facing), or just to have one more this and that, families are being sucked into this vicious circle where they do not have enough time for their children. Children do not need us only on Sunday afternoon once a week, they need us more than that.

Children up to the age of 11 or 12 mostly just look very close around them, after that age their horizon widens up more. Due to some physical and emotional changes they need 24 hr monitoring by the parents. Unfortunately we have so many broken families where either mother or father influence is missing. Step mother or step fathers can not fill the real gap. Ok sometimes children lose either of them due to death. Naturally children are capable of coping with that more than when they know that their parents are alive but not together. At some stage people will have to look into this problem.