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Im really intrigued and also concerned about this.
17 suicides in 1 year is according to police “normal” for the ages of the “victims”.
Im sure there has to be more too it, or are the police right to criticise the media (as did one set of parents) for causing more deaths?
Its all very strange. :?
edit to add link:
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1305988,00.html
This one is a real mystery Sharon. Its a shame inspector morse died, cos he’d find out, Miss marple has too many walking sticks to get round the hills, and Columbo, well he’s retired :lol:
Seriously though, baffling.
a form of mass hysteria ??
It could be Rubes. But when the victims and main witnesses are dead what on earth can the police do?
I think there is more to it, I lost a couple of friends to suicide during school college but 17 in a year… :shock:
Did it strike anyone else as a tad bizare that the mother of the latest suicide went infront of the mass media asking them not to publicise this any further…?
Why didn’t she just give them a piece of paper explaining her desire, completely off camera and with no quote.
It cynically alarms me the amount of people who strive to be infront of the cameras in such horrific circumstances.
@emmalush wrote:
Did it strike anyone else as a tad bizare that the mother of the latest suicide went infront of the mass media asking them not to publicise this any further…?
Why didn’t she just give them a piece of paper explaining her desire, completely off camera and with no quote.
It cynically alarms me the amount of people who strive to be infront of the cameras in such horrific circumstances.
This annoyed me too. She seemed vehmently angry with the media and you could infer from what she said that she basically blamed the media for her sons death.
I would be searching hi and low for clues closer to home before reaching such a poor conclusion.
And then the police say they do NOT want the media to stop publicising it as the numbers speak for themselves.
I blame Eastenders
i have many friends with kids in this age bracket, indeed my own two kids aare 18 and 22 yrs old. i can bareley imagine how the poor parents feel, or what they are going through. kids at this age are just developing into the adults they wil become. you begin to see the grown up in them, and its both rewarding and also quite scary. parents of teens go through a lot of pain with them kids and it hurts sometimes. but to lose them would be unbearable for me. god bless em. [and i dont do god]
i think the term “normal” was used as the national average for suicides (of this age group) per 100,000 is 15. The Bridgend area has 115,000 people in it so 17 suicides in 12 months is “normal”- doesnt make it any easier for the relatives to deal but there does not appear to be any “death cult” going on.
What i think the police at least were getting at is simple- the media are making a circus (see front page of todays Sun) out of a very tragic, but not extraordinary situation, which could be reflected virtually anywhere in the UK
i was talking to my son this morning, we were discussing these suicides, i asked him how many friends or old school friends he knows have died as i know of as few. it turns out that hes lost the following.
two to suicide.
four in car crashes
one to an extacy overdose.
and two in a motorbike crash..
hes only 22 but and he nows of 9 people in his age bracket that have died young. we only live in small market town. [we still call it a village but the brown stazi now tell us its a town] and the population is no where near as big as the town in wales. so its not hard to see that it is possible that the deaths arent related. but i find it very hard to believe, as they all took their own lives. its a very sad situation and if i lived there id lock my two up for the newt ten years in a cotton wool filled room.
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