@64 and @67 The argument is not flying over anyone’s head, the whole point is intent and the age difference. If you told a 3 year old kid to jump off a roof, and he did are you responsible? Of course you are you idiots, no matter what the law might say in one country or another. If you tell someone to kill themselves when you know they are in a vulnerable state, your at fault period, if you can’t see that your not able to distinguish right from wrong, and you should go get tested to see if you are a sociopath like Hobo@62 is…..

Timmah!, your right that you are not responsible if someone decides to do it, however, you still did the right thing, if someone threatens to commmit suicide, you call the cops, it is exactly the right action to take, if they are bluffing, then fine, they will have to deal with the cops, if not, then you might help save them….

She at 49 pretended to be a 16yr old boy to use chat/friend site…

If a 49yr old guy pretended to be a 16 yr old girl on same type sites he gets branded as a paedo and get put on sexual offenders register he dont have to chat someone up or make sexual ref’s, why wasnt she convicted for that???

anyone that wants to say otherwise is deluding themselves and not being honest.

Next time I recieve a huge gas bill I’m going to commit suicide: My family will know to blame british gas (tut).

This arguement is flying WAY over some peoples heads.

This little girl wasn’t stupid, she just wasn’t equipped to how to handle the situation better. Her parents had her in therapy and on psychiatric drugs when she was in the third grade. Sure people have chemical imbalances and medication certainly helps but perhaps the parents should have given her more tools to handle situations like this. One thing they could have done was put the computer in the family room so her mum and dad could watch what was going on. Better yet knowing how fragile she was perhaps myspace wasnt the best place for her to be gaining confidence, sport perhaps?

But for all of you, depression is a place where you cannot see alternatives. its not pretty.

Its awful that this little girl had to die because she didn’t see any other alternative.

Some thoughtful points here, an interesting read.

Something to consider.. most people who say they’re gonna suicide don’t. My last g/f was (is) bi-polar, self-harmer. I broke off the r/ship, but stuck around to support her as much as I could.. but she tried to o/d because I wouldn’t get back with her.. I called an ambulance and everything.. turns out she was bluffing.. bloody good performance tho take my word for it.

It’s easy to be cynical, but it’s also a fact that most people, even the chronically depressed don’t go thru with it. You tell some kid in school to go “drop dead” and they suicide – are you to blame? If it’s in them to actually go thru with it, their situation must be very very serious, and nothing less than good therapy and meds will stop it.

You’re not to blame for someone else’s decisions. An *extreme* emotional reaction to something most people would be upset about but recover.. not your fault. Unless of course you really DO know what a person is going to do – then that’s manipulation.

But that’s not so in this case. This woman does however need serious therapy to have behaved like that – she also responded in an extreme and childish way to a ridiculously mundane situation. Tormenting your daughter’s friend? What a great parent. I feel most sorry for her daughter.

But that, I would say, is fairly American.

Stupid people are everywhere. be it at your house,next door,race,gender, or even the person staring back at you in the mirror. So we should just do humanity a favor and end all end ourselves so we can stop wiping out other species and making this world inhabitable.

My two cents.

You wonder why kids shoot up schools and try to blow them up? Its because of months and years of harrasment and bullying by classmates that no one will stop that they one day snap and won’t take it anymore and lash out. When you beat someone’s spirit down and bully them, don’t be suprised if either they kill themselves one day or snap and try to kill all their tormentors. Humans are social creatures and need to belong to groups. If they are ostrizised then one day they snap and kill themselves or others or both, kill themselves and take others with them.

If you really are suprised by any of this then you have no clue about human nature and those people deserve what they get. Everyone involved as an adult should do some jail time. They knew what they were doing was wrong and they knew it would mess up the little girl but they didn’t care. So they deserved to be punished for a long time. We don’t need people like that in our society causing problems for the peaceful people, and terrorising little kids.