11 year old hangs self because mother stopped her from watching Big Brother

[XA04]

Quite sad. Both meanings of the word.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...&in_page_id=17

[bsodmike]

-- Mike, come on mate, its a tragic waste of life, that was no comment to make --

Stewart.

[Whiternoise]

I agree really.. i'm torn between feeling sorry for the parents and thinking how stupid the girl was - i mean eleven for ****s sake??!? what kind of 11 year old even considers commting suicide over a television program.

(maybe that's a bit harsh, but i only have sympathy for her parents - commiting suicide over one night of missed BB is completely irrational.)

edit: lol, looks like you have an external conscience Mike

[unreal]

Dumb decision to make, as now forever she will be known as "the girl who killed herself after she couldn't watch Big Brother anymore"... tragic waste of life really, but doesn't really earn my sympathy as I've seen and witnessed people with far far worse problems.

[leeglf]

what the hell is wrong with kids nowadays?

[johnny02004976]

i totally sympathise with her parents, i have the feeling there going to be slated by childrens care organisations for not giving into her demands. Hanging yourself for not getting your own way is totally over the top and a tragic waste of a life

[chuckskull]

What a waste, could be a good reason to get big brother banned though.

[XA04]

This is the last one anyway.

[shelley bda]

If that little girl did kill herself over Big Brother then she obviously had some serious problems It's all very well saying you have sympathy for for the parents but we don't know what sort of life she had been living with them? maybe it was a cry for help, maybe she was trying to get some attention and meant to scare her parents not actually kill herself, who knows, we'll never know, something definately wasn't right with that little girl.... and you have to ask yourself why? because if she was happy at home and well adjusted then she'd never of considered something so awful!, children aren't born happy, it's the adults and influences around them that make them that way.

[father smurf]

very true shelly

[Rack]

If that little girl did kill herself over Big Brother then she obviously had some serious problems

Exactly what I was thinking, a well balanced happy kid isn't going to top herself over TV. I really wouldn't sympathise with the parents if they didn't know their kid was that messed up - probably to do with their behaviour, not what's on Big Brother.

This is sensationalised news headlines, like "Video Games made me kill my friends" - nothing to do with being a psychopath...

[charleski]

It's a temper-tantrum gone very wrong.

From the article it looks as if this was an attention-seeking exercise attempting to punish the mother for a couple of minor slights whose significance would have disappeared in the morning. Suicide is comparatively rare among pre- and early teens (a rate of 1.6/100,000 in 10-14yr-olds compared to 13.6/100,000 for 20-24yr-old). Depression in children generally manifests in other ways unless it's particularly severe. She and her mother had spent the morning decorating, not really the sort of withdrawn, amotivational state associated with major depression.

I don't think anything was terribly wrong with her. She just made a terrible error of judgement while angry.

[unreal]

Yeh agreed, and being angry does tend to make you vunurable to the worst decisions you can make...

[TheAnimus]

Having read the artical i really doubt it was over not been able to watch bb.

First off, she's stupid, i don't mean in the selfish suicide way, the slow hanging way of suicide, she must of been very self loathing. I think you'd find it had far more to do with her mum and dad splitting up, other major things in her life. I think few people could say that it was more to do with not been able to watch TV, but been ignored by her mother.

[WLC-1989]

If Big Brother were a video-game, I can assure you the troops that are the Daily Mail's sensationalist readers would be on the streets demanding its banning.

Clearly this suicide is due to other factors as pointed out, but it does show the hypocrisy of the media imo.

[Rack]

From the article it looks as if...

Exactly.