This is kinda strange, wales seems to be having a high Suicide rate lately, its something to do with the internet, encouraging youngsters to take their own lives.

Most fat kids go to school, therefore going to school makes kids fat.

Most driving accidents occur for people who work, therefore work causes driving accidents.

All people that die where previously born to a mother, therefore your mother causes your death.

 

Stop and think when you read and before you post such none sense!

Stop and think when you read and before you post such none sense!

Meoooow Ricky. :lol:

Most fat kids go to school, therefore going to school makes kids fat.

Most driving accidents occur for people who work, therefore work causes driving accidents.

All people that die where previously born to a mother, therefore your mother causes your death.

 

Stop and think when you read and before you post such none sense!

 

Agreed...(sorry Mikey)

 

To blame the Internet for suicides is silly, I mean we all use the Internet so therefore are we going to commit suicide?

 

Though this is a tragic term of events I don't think the Internet can bare the blame.

Suspected suicides in Bridgend area reach 17 as schoolgirl found hanged

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/20/wales

 

A 16-year-old schoolgirl was found hanged yesterday, bringing to 17 the number of apparent suicides among youngsters in the Bridgend area since the beginning of last year.

 

South Wales police said Jenna Parry was discovered at 7.45am in woods near her home at Cefn Cribbwr, a small village north-west of the town.

 

Her death is the latest in a spate which has made Bridgend the focus of national scrutiny and the centre of a police investigation to discover possible links between the suicides. Speculation originally centred on the internet and social networking websites but police and grieving relatives moved yesterday to quash rumours of such links.

 

The parents of 15-year-old Nathaniel Pritchard, who apparently killed himself last week, went further and blamed their son's death on press coverage. Nathaniel's mother, Sharon, said: "It has glamorised ways of taking your life as a way of getting attention without fully realising the tragic consequences."

 

Last week, two cousins died within two days of each other and five people aged between 15 and 20 have died in the area this year.

 

"A number had access to social networking sites but there's no suggestion that anybody used these sites as a means to take their lives," said assistant chief constable Dave Morris, who is leading an investigation into the deaths. "I would like to put to bed any suggestion within the media that we are investigating suicide pacts or suicide internet links. They were all young people with big issues. There are a constellation of factors influencing these young people." These included relationship break-ups, friendship issues and family problems, he said.

 

Philip Walters, the coroner for Bridgend and Glamorgan Valleys, said he was convinced there was "not one great conspiracy" linking the 17 deaths, although he said there was clear evidence that the first three suicides and two subsequent pairs were linked by the victims knowing each other. "Apart from the three groupings, there are no links that I can see," he said. "Parts of the media have claimed there is an internet connection but there has been no evidence of that apart from internet tributes after the deaths."

 

The number of suicides in the last 12 months is above average for the area. In Bridgend, three men aged between 15 and 24 committed suicide on average every year between 1996 and 2006. Last year there were at least nine.

 

"Media coverage put the idea into Nathaniel's head," said Sharon Pritchard. "We never believed his death was linked to other deaths and never believed there was an internet pact. We are certain it never had anything to do with living in Bridgend."

 

Nathaniel died in hospital after "harming himself" last week. His cousin Kelly Stephenson, 20, was found hanged hours later while on holiday in Kent.

 

The police also criticised reporting of the suicides and said Bridgend is becoming "stigmatised" by the coverage.

 

"We are speaking to young people in Bridgend and what we are getting from them is that the media is starting to contribute to their thoughts in terms of how they feel, pressures they are under," said Morris.

 

A friend of Jenna's, Daniel John, 20, said: "It has been an absolute shock. She was so bubbly and carefree. I can't imagine why she would take her own life."

 

The Welsh assembly yesterday announced plans for a suicide prevention strategy. It wants to reduce suicides in the principality by 10% over the next four years. Suicide rates among men in Wales are the highest in the UK and plans for a national school-based counselling service will be published this spring.

 

The assembly's health minister Edwina Hart said: "I have also agreed that there will be some early pilot projects in suicide prevention work in those areas with the highest suicide rates and am aware that the rates vary across Wales and are not associated with one area."

its very strange why so many from one area with no apparent links should do this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/20/wales

Kudos to the Guardian. A half decent article in these days when reporting seems to have become a dying art.

its very strange why so many from one area with no apparent links should do this...

Is the number statistically significant? Must likely not.

 

Still there could be a common reason for the situation.

Has it been established these are suicides?

If there are suicides there would be notes with an explanation?

Is the number statistically significant? Must likely not.

 

Still there could be a common reason for the situation.

Has it been established these are suicides?

If there are suicides there would be notes with an explanation?

 

i think its normal to question why theres a cluster of apparent teenage suicides in any one area. there IS 'more then average' young deaths in a small area, so of course people are going to be suspicious. it is probably nothing more then co-incidence, but questions must be asked to be certain nothing untoward is going off.

 

 

its very strange why so many from one area with no apparent links should do this...

 

 

My essay is on this, below you will find the first 7 teenagers taken from my essay, my essay is information taken from reliable sources: -

 

Dale Crole aged 18 was the first to hang himself in January 2007, he was found dead at the Caney Beach Funfair.

 

David Dilling aged 19 was the second to hang himself in February 2007; he was a former classmate to Dale.

 

Thomas Davies aged 20, hanged himself from a tree in David’s home villager of Pyle. Thomas was the third to kill himself in February 2007.

 

Zachery Barnes aged 17 hanged himself with a washing line in August 2007. He was the forth to kill himself, friend of Thomas family.

 

Liam Clarke aged 20, hanged himself in a park in December 2007. Liam was the fifth. Friend of Dale.

 

Gareth Morgan aged 27, hanged himself in his bedroom in January 2008. Gareth was the sixth to kill himself. Friend of Liam.

 

Natasha Randall aged 17, hanged herself in her bedroom in January 2008. The Seventh to take her life. A very close friend to Liam.

 

 

So as you can see they killed themselves in tribute and they did all know each other in one way or another!

Edited February 20, 200817 yr by Daylight Dancer

Surely to God if you'd seen your friend kill himself because 4 of his friends or distant-people-he-knew had, you'd see exactly how much pain and hurt it causes for those left behind. It's tragic, I know, but I just think suicide is the most selfish thing you can possibly do - to make it easy for yourself and make it a million times worse for everyone left behind is awful IMO :(

 

I feel bad speaking ill of the dead, especially since I'd call all these kids innocent, but tribute my ass - "my friend just killed himself and it's hurting me so badly, so I'm gonna do it too in 'tribute' and make someone else feel as awful as I do" :huh:

Surely to God if you'd seen your friend kill himself because 4 of his friends or distant-people-he-knew had, you'd see exactly how much pain and hurt it causes for those left behind. It's tragic, I know, but I just think suicide is the most selfish thing you can possibly do - to make it easy for yourself and make it a million times worse for everyone left behind is awful IMO :(

 

I feel bad speaking ill of the dead, especially since I'd call all these kids innocent, but tribute my ass - "my friend just killed himself and it's hurting me so badly, so I'm gonna do it too in 'tribute' and make someone else feel as awful as I do" :huh:

 

I think it´s ironic that someone can commit suicide because of losing a friend or split a relationship as a teenager, when if they all have been alive for a few more years, there is a big probability that they would distance themselves from each other to the point that when they´re 30 or 40 years old they would mean nothing to each other... Do people at the age of 15, 16, 17, really think they will remain with their friends and boy/girlfriends for the entire life, so that losing one of them at this point would mean live is not worth living from now on?

 

My essay is on this, below you will find the first 7 teenagers taken from my essay, my essay is information taken from reliable sources: -

 

Dale Crole aged 18 was the first to hang himself in January 2007, he was found dead at the Caney Beach Funfair.

 

David Dilling aged 19 was the second to hang himself in February 2007; he was a former classmate to Dale.

 

Thomas Davies aged 20, hanged himself from a tree in David’s home villager of Pyle. Thomas was the third to kill himself in February 2007.

 

Zachery Barnes aged 17 hanged himself with a washing line in August 2007. He was the forth to kill himself, friend of Thomas family.

 

Liam Clarke aged 20, hanged himself in a park in December 2007. Liam was the fifth. Friend of Dale.

 

Gareth Morgan aged 27, hanged himself in his bedroom in January 2008. Gareth was the sixth to kill himself. Friend of Liam.

 

Natasha Randall aged 17, hanged herself in her bedroom in January 2008. The Seventh to take her life. A very close friend to Liam.

So as you can see they killed themselves in tribute and they did all know each other in one way or another!

 

Yes thats what i heard from the daily mail. They all came from somewhere in South Wales, in the Neath or Seven Sisters area and there were rumours that it was all from a suicide pact. I don't know about the other 10

 

Is the number statistically significant? Must likely not.

 

Still there could be a common reason for the situation.

Has it been established these are suicides?

If there are suicides there would be notes with an explanation?

 

 

The number is a huge increase on the normal teenage suicide rate in the area (which normally is miniscule).

 

The deaths were all suicides.... hanging is rarely an accident unless you're a toddler or a child under 10 - all the deaths were deliberate.

 

Many left notes - either with relatives or on the internet.

 

It's a mystery - I don't live too far from the area in question and, far from it being the deprived hellhole the media are portraying it as, Bridgend has some pretty rich, posh areas. It's also a thriving town - loads of activities available, lots of shops, nightlife and it's surrounded by a gorgeous coastline, too..... there are certainly more prospects here than in many other parts of Wales.

 

Maybe it's a 'fame' thing? Each of the recent suicides - these kids knew the huge local and national publicity surrounding the deaths - perhaps, as bizarre as this sounds, it was a way to get their name and face on the news and in the papers? :(

Edited February 24, 200817 yr by russt68

If I was the parent of a teenage child in that area I would be out of my f***ing mind with worry right now given what is happening

 

My views on suicide are well documented on other threads so no need to repeat them here

The number is a huge increase on the normal teenage suicide rate in the area (which normally is miniscule).

 

The deaths were all suicides.... hanging is rarely an accident unless you're a toddler or a child under 10 - all the deaths were deliberate.

 

Many left notes - either with relatives or on the internet.

 

It's a mystery - I don't live too far from the area in question and, far from it being the deprived hellhole the media are portraying it as, Bridgend has some pretty rich, posh areas. It's also a thriving town - loads of activities available, lots of shops, nightlife and it's surrounded by a gorgeous coastline, too..... there are certainly more prospects here than in many other parts of Wales.

 

Maybe it's a 'fame' thing? Each of the recent suicides - these kids knew the huge local and national publicity surrounding the deaths - perhaps, as bizarre as this sounds, it was a way to get their name and face on the news and in the papers? :(

 

I agree completely. First it was all getting blamed on the internet, and then the blame shifted to the fault of the media. I read recently that after some of the original deaths, the rest were feeling pressured by the media which later caused their deaths. Which - I think is a load of nonsense.

 

I do sympathise, of course. But I'm curious as to why this has happened. The number of suicide deaths there have increased dramatically, and I'll be damned if it is just an unfortunate coincidence.

Something isn't right in that area, for all these youngsters commiting suicide :huh:

here's a Google images page of photos from the area these kids were from... like I said, it's far from deprived. Vale of Glamorgan is one of the most affluent areas of Wales...in fact, it's where Charlotte Church and Gavin Henson have recently bought a country pile...

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&am...organ&gbv=2