Another suicide thread

[Leon]

As the thread starter, I just wanna say something.

I still think society is messed up. We have people who are quick to judge when there's, for example, a sex scandal (namely in politics) and thus never look much into it to have a better judgment on whether the subject is guilty or not. Or when there's a mass murder somewhere and the guy kills himself; the typical response from people being something like "Oh, I hope he burns in Hell!"

But when someone commits suicide, boom. "She's an angel, you're stupid for looking too much into it." I could say harsher things, like how Hitler committed suicide and sadly he's still revered by white supremacists. I agree that suicide is never the way out to your problems, but we also have to think about what drove these people to suicide. As I mentioned before, I lost a dear friend to suicide and that was because the death of her friend was just too overwhelming and her life was just bad (her parents disowned her after her first attempt, luckily her friend took her in before she passed away). I won't be so quick to judge Amanda Todd, but she's definitely no angel. Sure, I got no problem (to an extent) with her sending nudes, but she also ruined someone's relationship by causing another girl's boyfriend to cheat with her. So I can't say I feel sorry for her. I feel sorry for her parents, one reason for the loss of their child and another for the way she was brought up.

EDIT: And one more thing. Again, if we focus more on suicide prevention and less on waiting for people to kill themselves in order to do something, maybe we can make a difference in someone's life.