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Wales: There has been a string of teenage suicides in Bridgend recently. The young people all knew each other, and might have been inspired by the earlier deaths. It's a terrible situation, but one religious nutter knows it wasn't the pressure of school, the lack of employment opportunities, or the impossibility of getting a start in adult life contributing to the record levels of depression and self-harm among young people. As he explained to the Daily Mail:
Teenage suicide doesn't surprise me. Children are taught at school that we are nothing more than animals, descendents of an ape-like creature. When life gets tough why carry on living if our lives are just a freak of nature. Well done to all those who teach our kids that evolution is a fact.
If being more than an animal means being a nasty, hateful scumbag, well I say OOK!
Teenage suicide cult sweeps through town as SEVEN youngsters kill themselves in copycat deaths—The Daily Mail, 22nd January 2008.
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1: Posted by: G. Tingey | January 23, 2008 9:51 AM
Slight problem ...
"Explained" - to the Daily Mail ...
Errr, shome mishtake here shurely?
2: Posted by: Thomas | January 23, 2008 9:58 AM
I was going to say something flippant about how I would want to kill myself if I still lived in Wales but, after reading the article, I wonder if there might not be more going on besides job opportunities and social pressure.
Seven suicides with more attempted?
Something nefarious is going on. I'm not suggesting foul play but that there is something more going on than these kids simply being depressed. Check the groundwater. Autopsy the kids' brains for fungal infections. Check their email and phone records and see if they were being threatened or somesuch.
I have no idea what might lead to this but I don't buy that it's just a bunch of depressed teens.
3: Posted by: Feòrag | January 23, 2008 10:35 AM
If I were an evil scumbag like the creationist, it could be argued that religious belief is clearly to blame, with the kids wanting to be with their dead friends and believing in some kind of life after death. But that would be as scummy an argument as the first, and is presented merely as an example of spinning it the other way.
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