Emo music blamed for teen suicide

omg I used to love MCR when I was 15....

As 'logical' people we're always looking for something to blame when there doesn't seem to be any other explanation. For many people it's so much easier to point fingers. Why didn't they probe her personal life more?

there is no such thing as emo music...

In a perfect world everyone that did listen to Emo WOULD kill themselves.

The glamor of suicide, interesting phrase. Not exactly sure what's so glamorous about it, but I'm also not a 13 year old emo girl. I think the reason music is blamed is because a scapegoat is always needed for something like this. It couldn't have been because she was suffering from some sort of depression or other mental illness, no it has to be the music she's listening to, let's sue My Chemical Romance! But there has been a precedent for a band being sued because someone killed themselves while listening to their music. It happened to Judas Priest after two kids tried to kill themselves after listening to British Steel. It had to be the album, because God knows it couldn't have been the booze and drugs they were on. Priest was exonerated btw.

i'm not 13 , but if i were forced to listen to emo for more than 2 minutes i'd kill myself too .

Seems like parents are always ready to blame outside forces when they are clearly not talking and communicating with their kids. Did every drug overdose in the 60's become a result of the Beatles...

Music doesn't make you kill yourself. That's a decision a person makes on their own. It is sad that this girl died, but even more upsetting is the trend to blame media for the concequences of our own actions. We all need to take a little more responsibilty as a society and not always look for a scapegoat when something bad happens.

No seriously we need to blame emo for this one.

This sort of story seems to come up every few years. People used to say that heavy metal led to teen suicide and then it was the goth rock. People never blame the easy listening station they're are forced to listen at work. People chose to commit suicide, they are not forced to by music.

The problems like this that are of society are usually blamed on the media, however most of the problems result from other ills of society, not just the media. Parents need to start talking to their children and the general public should realize that music is another form of entertainment.

Isn't that the same thing like they blamed Iron Maiden, D&D and video games?

Easier to project the blame onto something else more "glamorous" than the person's problems right?

D & D was "glamorous" ? wasn't it Ozzy's "suicide solution" which held ascendancy over Iron Maiden so far as inducing untimely self inflicted death ?

oh, blame the music. Like it wasn't there choice in the first place to listen to it.

Listening to emo music would make me feel suicidal, too. But I don't think music can actually do that to someone.

Bah, the usual people rather blame something rather than face the truth. And sadly in the US more and more people rather accept the hype than the truth.

For the record I listen to Emo/Heavy Metal/Satanic Music play D&D, play GTA and other violent video games, watch porn, masturbate, speak my mind, search for the truth. But in today's world in the US just from that I can be branded a trouble person, a rebel, a pedo, a potential criminal, a terrorist.

Remember we are free because we fail to see the chains that bind us.

There's no one to blame. I don't know why there always has to be a cause.

And I hate the term emo (I don't listen to the 'genre' of whiny complainy pseudo dark pop music, thank Allah) I just think its stupid to call the music 'emotional' when, to me, all music is emotional in some way. We place such shame on expression these days.

You can't blame sounds for suicide. That's ridiculous. The type of music probably made her happier or it satisfied her in some way, otherwise she wouldn't have liked listening to it. she was depressed so she listened to that music and found a niche in a 'scene'; It's not that she found a scene and then became depressed.
It probably comforted her, but it didn't urge her to be any happier. Happy people wouldn't want to listen to something depressing. And depressed people don't want to listen to anything happy.

Or not. What do I know?

This is a typical example of people who aren't motivated to find the real story. I'm not saying this is the real answer but on another note was there any deal with anti-depressants. A suprising (or unsuprising depending on who you are) amount of these stories have that somewhere behind the headline....Adderal or any of these millions of pills that have my whole generation on at once by diagnosing them with idiotic things that used to be labeled as "being a teenager".

omg...another idiotic family is gonna sue, MCR because they were unsuccessful at teaching their child how look at music and art. Instead of adapting another person thought or even thinking a certain story telling may not be necessarily true. They failed at teaching their child individual thinking...

Dont blame the music!

The coroner is the one who suggested that an obsession with music caused her death. Enough said.

you wanna know who to blame ? blame "evolution" - blame the fact that our species ever developed the ability to make , record and distribute music .

Enough said since it was the obsession, not the music. People can get obsessed with a lot of things gambling, sex, drugs, guns etc. that lead to their deaths.

I agree, listening to emo music would make me want to kill myself.

On a serious not however, lets not blame the pressure our society puts on the younger children now to succeed in school and in life. Lets not blame the parents for not being there for their daughter when she needed them. Obviously she got depressed over any number of factors in her life, thus like every other teenager she found a group that was like her and listen to the same music, unfortunutly she did kill herself unlike the scores of other "emo" kids who do not, that should be proof enough it was not music. Its very sad that we put the blame off on other things, as long as we are doing that, we arn't searching for the real problem and so we can not find a real solution and then be able to offer aid to girls (or guys) like her.

How very sad, but Comic books, Rock & Role, Computer Games and Movies are also blamed. If a person is truly suicidal, the media they are interested is only a very small particle of a very complex mindset.

" People never blame the easy listening station they're are forced to listen at work."

Which I could've be quoted several times over the years as to saying the genre would eventual suicide. However, I managed to overcome those thoughts somehow.

"The glamor of suicide" isn't all that its cracked up to be kids. Theres nothing romantic about it. You are not a martyr. You just hate yourself cause your not happy though your emotions are completely based on how you choose to view the world.

Nothing beautiful about bleeding out or strugling and trying to get the rope off from round your neck cause the only thoughts you have when you kick the chair out from under you is "OH FUCK."

You die and then you rot in the ground. Oh, and if your religious, you go to hell for comiting suicide.

To take your own fucking life, thats the onlything you actually own in this world. Thats the only thing God has given you. You throw it aside like it means nothing, because you are so sad.

I have no pity for someone who pities themselves so much.

The girl looks strikingly similar to "Jane" from American Beauty.

The actions of this young teen are not to be taken lightly. The description of the suicide procedure, hanging by tie, would suggest that her neck did not break immediately. This would lead to more extreme suffering as she likely slowly suffocated. Imagine the all pain but still she went through with it. Why? Does music make you do this?

emo/rock = suicide
rap = homicide
"techno" = untouchable!

The music shouldn't be blamed. Obsessions can be deadly.

If she was emo...Than she surpased the stereotype. She didn't only attempt suicide...But she actually went through with it. That's surprising.

I'd kill myself too if I had to listen to those crappy bands. But seriously, people really need to stop blaming their kid's psychotic/suicidal behavior on the media. First it was books, then comic books, then rock and roll, now videogames (oh yeah, and rock and roll too).

to paraphrase Bill Clinton

It's the parents stupid.

god i hope that was clinton i'm thinking of....

haha, it's the economy.

That's pretty awful though, that yall would say that they should all kill themselves. Iono, you guys are entitled to your opinions (go ahead, disagree with me, I give you permission) but it was probably psychological problems that drove this girl to suicide, not emo.

This argument that music infuences emotions has been going on since music was made. I belive that it was Plato that suggested soldiers listen to music in the dorian and phrygian modes as opposed to ionian and lydian which would make soldiers soft. something liek that. I belive John McCain would remember the exact quote, seeing as he was there during the time that Plato wrote/said that.

People that listen to emo are still human beings (albeit human beings with bad taste) but humans none the less.

everyone should listen to reggae music..it heals the soul. i promise.

The problem with story's like these is that it's all speculation. We don't know, period. That's it. We weren't within that experience so we don't know what happened. And as far as glamorizing this young girls death, isn't it happening right now? Aren't we talking, speculating, making bad jokes? It's happening right now and we don't even know it.

Keeshii you aren't kidding.

i blame Bush

I undoubtedly must be to old because I have no clue what "emo" is exactly. Beside the point, where are her parents while she is listening to music that makes suicide "glamorous"? What did her parents think when she had a picture of a girl with slashed wrists?
Music is not the problem. Parents not raising their children right is. Parents need to stop trying to be their friend first. They need to be a parent first!!!!

At some point, parents need to realize that they just *might* have failed at parenting, rather than find a scapegoat. Try talking to your kids. Try listening to what they have to say. Provide them with an open line of communication. This is also a good opportunity to promote the 1-800-SUICIDE helpline.

List of other probable causes not included here which one or more is probably the reason:

1. . Nutritional deficiency makes teens crazy. In other countries they know this and research has shown that there has been a 1/3 reduction in teen violence.

OFTEN ADDED TO

2 Use of over the counter cold/allergy medication


OFTEN ADDED TO:

3. Use of antidepressant drugs to help the poor kids.

Mix this elixir all together and you get ..surprise astronomical high violence rates in the USA.

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