i would say, this is more or less correct.. the kid was told no one too many times
he had enough, wanted to ease his pain more than anything in the world, didnt know how to do it other than kill himself. It happens all around us everyday scenario, none of us stop to think about it until a post like this comes along.

like for instance with me, at school there was this kid, every ****ing day he would call me and this other kid fat. to ease my suffering i beat the **** out of him. now i realize all you have to do is talk to some1 you can trust about your problem, and more than likely you will feel better.

hope this adds another good degree to the discussion.

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I'd rather blow a line of coke or something. Hanging himself must have seemed like the smart thing to do at the time. It's just sad that young people do this to themselves. I hope it doesn't reflect poorly on the video games. We already have enough bone heads trying to blame school shootings and what not on video games.

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Dam that sucks what our generation is coming to(hanging themselves over video games) But personaly i have no sympathy for suiciders, they take the easy way out and basically quit. It disgusts me. Sorry for my rash words, but i just wanted to get that off my chest.

Sounds like the parents are in denial if they believe that he didn't do it on purpose I mean how does someone accidentally hang themselves with a tie?

I feel sorry for the kid in a way though, sounds like he had some anger problems that needed some addressing. I bet if he would have kept a cool head and thought about his future then he wouldn't have done it. I am sure it was a heat of the moment type of thing that he did out of pure anger. Too bad his parents couldn't have helped him earlier.

Anger makes people do things they normally wouldn't do. I believe that this young man was bottling up his feelings instead of sharing them with his family and I believe that in bottling up his feelings that he developed anger issues. It's hard to say exactly, but I don't believe than any rational person even a 13 year old would kill themselves over a video game unless they were completely blinded by anger or other emotions. I don't necessarily sympathize with this young man but I do feel sorry that this had to happen to him and his family. With bit of help it sounds like this kid would have had a bright future ahead of him.

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Shibby brings up good points, usually all of the time. I think he was thinking more at getting back at his parents by killing himself. Like, not realizing he would end his life for real.. like in the long run, dead, gone.

Either that or he was hoping one would walk in on him or something.. people need help, a lot of people, and they just don't know how to get it. I feel bad for these people, if anyone ever has a problem for real, I'm being serious, on this board feel free to PM me and talk before you do something stupid.

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sad story . r.i.p . must of had problems cuz i wouldnt kill myself if i lost my ps3 (as much as love it).

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On my last day of school (2-3 weeks ago), me and my pals walked home school to pick up lunch. When we were walking on the sidewalk by my city lake (Crystal Lake, Illinois) 3 kids ran up to us and claimed a boy hung himself. Not expecting to actually see the boy, me and my friends ran to the seen. Sure enough we al saw the boy hanging from the tree abouth 25 yards away. This story hit me hard because i later found out the boy was a sixteen year old from across my street.(I can actually see his house). It kind of reminds me of this. I cant believe anybody would do this.

*This is 100% true

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Parents don't always know exactly what to do in every situation, it's easy to sit outside of the box and point fingers at whose responisible for what but without knowing exactly what went on in the home on a day to day basis it is hard to say whether or not it was his parents fault for him acting that way. Perhaps he had ADHD, I believe that a lot of parents and doctors use ADHD as an excuse when kids have problems but I also believe that some children honestly have ADHD. My brother actually has it, without his medication he becomes easily agitated, he doesn't want to listen to what anyone else has to say, he becomes argumentative and can be more prone to angry outbursts but when he is on his meds he is so much easier to get along with it's literally like night and day. Similar to this particular boy getting mad at his younger sister my brother often gets in fights with my youngest brother over similar little things and is prone to blowing such things way out of proportion. Perhaps this young boy too suffered from ADHD or something similiar?

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Well Ryan, I finally found some time to write my opinion on this subject. ( Had kind of a hectic weekend.)

I have to admit I saw the Post when you made it, But i couldn't bring myself to make an immediate reply. I've been thinking about it, trying to get my toughts in to a coherent text. Not easy.

Well first of all, I'd like to say. I feel for the parents and family because they must be going trough a very rough period right now. I sincerly hope that I never have to go trough such an awfull ecperience. So my deepest regards to the parents if they should ever read this. (Don't think so but just in case.)
The tought of having to find your son or daughter for that matter, hung by a tie, is one that makes me think about not having children myself. I feel no parent should ever have to go trough this, but as you see life has some sick twists to it.

No to get back on topic, BOy hangs self over Wii !!?
i find it very difficult to believe that this was the sole reason for his act. As the article described, He was a very imaginative child who loved to write. in my eyes that means that he was a rational kid who just got into puberty and that we all know is a rather difficult time for parents and the child itself, everything starts changing at that point. So I don't think this was the main reason for his suicide (if it was truly a wanted and wellovertought decission from his side). i highly doubt it however. We will probably never know the true story. What i find very disturbing is the fact that he could run off to his room in a raging angry way, without the parents even going to try and calm him down or ask him what really bothered him. I DO NOT POINT A FINGER at the parents. But the article states that they knew he had angerissues. So why let him leave in anger and leave him to himself for some time.

I have to say i want to follow SHIBBYs train of toughts, he does make some good points. And he can write it down better than I can so I follow his thinking.

You are comming very close to the truth in this post in my eyes. But I'm not sure, so either way it's a very sad story and it really got to me. That's why I didn't want to reply as fast as normal.

I also think that this article brings the discussion about wether or not Videogames have a bad influence on children on the table again.
Like you said: "We already have enough bone heads trying to blame school shootings and what not on video games."
I also don't think that any of those happenings really got started by playing a videogame. But i do not feel the need to discuss this topic because my god would it be a never ending war of posts. I do not think that they can have such an influence, but they will ad up to the mix that makes people do such things.

Now about those schoolshootings. Well no, something about a specific happening and the reactions on it. Given the fact that you live in america i'd like to know your opinion on this. It's about the incident at the Columbine Highschool and the reaction on it by Michael Moore. "Bowling for Columbine" I saw the documentary, and it really made me go WOW sometimes.
especially this scene, and i'd like your reaction on it, anyone from america, please share your opinion on this with me because I live in belgium and i don't really know how things work in the USA.
" Moore goes to a bank to open account, Ok no problem says the person working there, please fill out forms, put signature there, blablabla, ... But then comes wat really amazed me. They say, thank you for putting your trust in our bank, we'd like to offer you a gift. Turns out to be a hunting rifle!!!!!! What's up with this, because I hardly think that's normal (I'm being very direct here, sorry) Now moore also says, do you have some ammo for that? No the employee says, but you can go to the supermarket around the corner?????!!!!!!
I can understand the fact that you have a very open mind about firearms and owning them. But FFS, handing them out in a bank when you open an account??? Here in belgium it's even difficult to buy a bbgun or airsoft gun!!
So please share your toughts on this subject.

Oh, I see we're working with a huge timedifference so it might take me sometime to reply to posts, I'll do my best to reply as fast as I can.

Very good post by the way!