Audience Applauds 19 yr old's Suicide on Stage

The take meds then stop cycle is a mental issue all of it's own.....

I HATE that kinda crap, not to sound too aggressive..... but NO, you're not okay, that's why you have a FOR-FUCKIN'-EVAR script for happy pills

 

Pretty sad that people are so emotionally void that they find suicide amusing.

Meh. I thought I'd find words to reprove you all. I guess if you can't see, I can't show you.

 

Sounds like a good show

 

Because we're totally all laughing our asses off right now...
Seriously, what are you talking about? There's some good discussion going on in here about the rights of the mentally ill... Maybe you should read the thread before you post about how we're all sick and twisted, and how you wouldn't even condescend to reprove us.

 

in all romantistic respect what a poetic way to go out

 

wow this is so sad i feel bad for his family dont know why any one would do such a thing but no one knows what was going on in his mind and how he may have been suffering mental break down its just awful

 

Very fucked up... ensuring that he died getting his fix of attention... I feel badly for the people he mind fucked. Eventually I may get around to feeling compassion for him if there's any left. Focusing on the fact that the audience clapped and cheered before the gravity of the situation set in for no purpose beyond sensationalizing the story shows questionable journalistic integrity at best considering the general population's propensity to run with half-truths and innuendo- something that most mainstream publications that feature editorial departments know about all too well. Of course the oligarchs would like us to remain divided and misinformed...

 

God we will just argue about anything wont we. This poor kid killed himself and no one really knows or understands why and they never will so let’s just say it’s a sad thing and leave it at that.

 

Wow, thats pretty intense but how would you not know. Fake blood, and the way one composes them selves when stabbed, I mean there had to of been a trigger...

Def a stunt to get the most impact tho

 

Suicide is a challenging topic. Discussing it is good. I am sure there are other places to pay your respects without the fear of reading something you might not like being said about the deceased, but that is not the purpose of this forum.
I don't mean to sound callous, but this is a discussion forum, and not everyone is going to have the same opinion, least of all when it comes to suicide and depression. Some people have their reasons, others might not understand, and still others may understand all too well. If you think someone's opinion is unfair, why not show them your perspective rather than telling us what to think about it and how to respond?

 

I don't understand why some of you see suicide as 'selfish' or 'cowardly' or what...

I see suicide as putting in your vote that this culture is a piece of shit.

 

No surprise seeing people are so fucked up,wrapped up in themselves and dont care enough to find out WHATS REALLY HAPPENING

Poor boy......

 

Then do it.

 

It doesn't bother you at all that this culture is set up in such a way that a certain percentage of the population will always find it so intolerable that they would rather kill themselves?

 

I don’t think I meant it like that. What I meant was that although it’s good to discuss it, to me it seems futile to do so because it’s going to just going to go around and around in a circle. Also this is my opinion on the subject just as whatever the hell you said was yours.

 

Do you think it strange that people might have thought it was a performance piece when there are similar (and fake) self-harm performances going round?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWjEgFfM-20"]YouTube - Frost(until the light takes us)

I doubt anyone here who is 'shocked' would have reacted differently from the rest of the crowd.

 

Skip, I'm not sure what you're talking about. How could they have possibly read further into it? It was an open mic night and he did it after playing keyboard. I would probably have thought it was a trick too with fake blood.

edit: On second thought, maybe you're talking about the responses in this thread

 

...and leaving the survivors to deal with the emotional aftermath of the "vote"...

This I believe to be the intended reaction but I do not think it's reasonable to expect an audience to even remotely anticipate an onstage suicide.

This is the crux of the issue I have with the way the story was carried... journalists should understand their audience enough to measure what facts to include in the headline as well as how to handle them. "Timmy Tweeter" is liable to see that the audience clapped and cheered the suicide, disregard the "unwitting" and decide in his ADHD voided mind that the audience was somehow responsible.

Suicide in general I see as very selfish... (with some possible exceptions in cases of terminal illness where family and friends are suffering the decline of a loved one-) ...cowardly? not sure that I can use that broad brush to color most suicides but I think it applies here. The kid chose to mind fuck the unsuspecting witnesses by opting to take his selfish act to a public stage. However fucked up things were to inspire his decision he added another layer of fucked up for those traumatized by that-- and HE won't have to deal with it having effected the ultimate escape.

Bear in mind that there is available help for folks contemplating suicide. There's no reason one should have to allow ones state of mind to deteriorate to that degree. Reacting with anything but contempt to the young man's decision to make his selfish act into a traumatic experience for those whom he forced to witness it may well encourage others to do the same. This cannot be seen as a reasonable or viable recourse on any level and anyone choosing that route deserve posthumous excoriation. The act is one of ultimate contempt meriting zero dignity.