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Cause and Effect?

Do Internet bereavement walls make teens kill themselves??!

If so then why were they killing themselves before the Internet? oops, sorry, I forgot. I am not supposed to ask questions like that!

By the way, when I lived in South America I learned that the most common ways for teens to kill themselves were by hanging and poison. And these teens were from places where they didn't have Internet access. And do any intelligent people really believe a person who isn't feeling suicidal is going to kill themselves just because there are sites that provide information about ways to commit suicide? Wouldn't it be just a tad bit more intelligent to try to figure out why teens feel depressed, hopeless, alone, trapped, and suicidal in the first place? Too bad no one from Reuters has interviewed me. I'd give them some alternative quotes to publish and spread around the world. The sad thing is that the British and Americans, who obviously don't understand cause and effect, control so much of the media, at least in English. If your first language is English I kind of feel sorry for you actually. In some ways it puts you at a disadvantage actually. Because the British culture which spread English around the world by killing people and robbing them of their land, is so dysfunctional that you are going to have to work pretty hard to understand true cause and effect, if that is something which even interests you. Most people though read this garbage and just swallow it like the beer they drink in such brain cell deadening quantities.

Feeling frustrated and judgmental, your independent reporter...your voice to sanity...

S. Hein
Jan 27, 2008

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From yahoo newsJan 26, 2008 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080126/wl_nm/britain_suicide_dc

LONDON (Reuters) - Police are looking for possible links between the deaths of a number of young people around a small Welsh town, but said there was no evidence yet of a suicide pact.


At least seven young people have killed themselves in the Bridgend area in the past year, with several of the young victims reportedly hanging themselves after spending hours chatting with friends on the Internet.

"We'll be reviewing the circumstances surrounding a number of sudden deaths in the Bridgend area," South Wales police said in a statement late on Friday.

Police said they were not re-investigating the deaths but looking for possible links between them.

"We've no evidence to suggest there's any link between the deaths at this time," the statement said. "To date there's no evidence of a suicide pact."

The only death currently under active investigation was that of a 17-year-old girl who died in Blaengarw on January 17. A South Wales police spokesman on Saturday was unable to confirm that the review could involve up to 13 deaths.

Earlier this week the town's Labour MP Madeleine Moon said she was concerned about the effect on teenagers of spending too much time on the Internet and memorial Web sites, where people leave messages about dead friends.

"What we don't know is whether the Internet is playing a key factor in this," Moon told Reuters. "What's concerning is that you're getting Internet bereavement walls. That's not going to help anyone."

The Times newspaper reported on Saturday that the Ministry of Justice is examining new legal curbs to stop Internet sites providing information about ways to commit suicide. The ministry was unavailable for comment.

(Reporting by John Joseph, Editing by Jon Boyle)