General Schoolboy found hanged after his father confiscated his new Wii

[Jackal]

A child's mind is completely different from anyone older.
In my opinion, if you want to look at it in the more 'positive' way, he was breave for facing the unknown of death.

Ah, but was he brave or stupid?

 

[IceWarrior98]

A child's mind is completely different from anyone older.
In my opinion, if you want to look at it in the more 'positive' way, he was breave for facing the unknown of death.

He would have been more brave to face the situation at hand without resulting in the escape of death.

 

[TheDamien]

but think about hes parents how they feel after hes Suicide.

Losing someone is hard, but it is one of those harsh realities. The simple fact is that you don't own other people, they aren't pieces of your property or your god given right. The world would be a nicer place if people didn't suicide, but a person's right to their own life outweighs everyone else's right to it.

the kid cant say why he did it because he is dead..
now hole family must have some help and yes sure hes sister
need help now. So little it is selfish of him he don't think

I think the motives are important here. Reportedly, some people commit suicide purely to upset those around them. We can't be sure if this was the case, but if it was then it was obviously a very mean and spiteful thing to do.

what he did to hes family because of a farking game.

The confiscation and ensuing argument clearly triggered the suicide, but it probably wasn't the primary cause. The kid could have been in a semi-suicidal state for weeks, maybe this incident just pushed him over the edge?

Of course, there is always the chance that he never meant to hang himself and that the entire thing was accidental. It would be no less tragic.

He would have been more brave to face the situation at hand without resulting in the escape of death.

If there is an easy way out then people will take it. Suicide, however, is not an easy way out.

It takes a lot more willpower to commit suicide than to passively "face" a situation.

Ah, but was he brave or stupid?

These categories often overlap.

 

[sqrage]

A child's mind is completely different from anyone older.

When I was younger I couldn't even afford to get the new consoles until years after they were out. I wasn't so stupid as to hang myself because of it. I understood that that was the reality and didn't complain.

The kid was an idiot.

 

[esb]

True, but everyone is completely different. Everyone was raised different. Obviously for the kid it was 'normal' and for us, it was 'stupid'.

Anyway, it was now or later either way for that kid.

 

[Larcenist]

When I was younger I couldn't even afford to get the new consoles until years after they were out. I wasn't so stupid as to hang myself because of it. I understood that that was the reality and didn't complain.

The kid was an idiot.

Then think of it in the perspective of an angry, confused, lost, semi-suicidal child (assuming this is the case).

Think of anytime you really lost the grip of reality. This often happens when you're angry, confused, lost or similar. Any event, how insignificant it might seem for the people around can push you into making things you never thought you would.

I would have to agree with TheDamien. I believe the kid was wandering around trying to keep perspective of reality, and found temporarly sooth in this video game. After a mere second this haven of his was taken away leaving him yet again in a confused state of mind, only this time with no grip of reality. What happened next was clearly an act on impulses, he wasn't thinking clearly, he wasn't thinking at all it just happened.

 

[Miz]

Really it maybe extreme, but really the person is obviously not ok mentally if he wants to do this to himself over a video game console.

 

[sqrage]

Then think of it in the perspective of an angry, confused, lost, semi-suicidal child (assuming this is the case).

Think of anytime you really lost the grip of reality. This often happens when you're angry, confused, lost or similar. Any event, how insignificant it might seem for the people around can push you into making things you never thought you would.

"He didn't have any particular temper tantrums other than those you would expect from someone who had just become a teenager."

 

[Seb!]

"He didn't have any particular temper tantrums other than those you would expect from someone who had just become a teenager."

Usually the suicidal people are the ones who had been holding back and keeping it inside without someone to talk to.

I don't think it's fair to make ridiculous generalizations like "th1s k1d w4s st\/p1d. LOL" because you have no idea what he was going through. The Wii was probably only part of the problem, anyway.

 

[Prometheus]

Hell, if you have issues and you're emotionally unstable as a teen you need help. Unless your mature enough to deal. Not the case with this kid.
Sad.

 

[Asehujiko]

Really it maybe extreme, but really the person is obviously not ok mentally if he wants to do this to himself over a video game console.

I seriously doubt that his console was the only problem, let alone a major one.