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Netflix series on U.S. teenager's suicide triggers alarm among educators, experts

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By Laura BONILLA

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Since netflix got rid of their star rating system, it's been down hill from there with quality.

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Isn't this Lovely:

A story, that is portrayed as a "Public Service" to "Prevent Suicides", and the picture that goes along with the cast is a bunch'a Hollywood pukes, all SMILING and laughing it up, all the while providing their "Public Service".

This is nothing but a $ Money Maker $, pure and simple.

Want to "Help Change Things " , how about doing a suicide series on the Japanese Epidemic ? How about why the 12 year old girl jumped in front of a train right up the street from my apartment at Zama Station ?

What is the Body Count for USA vs Japan?; how about THAT?

"Slit her rists, and sat in a bathtub; while it turns "Crimson" (is THAT perhaps, Romanticizing? ) this method

sounds like it was taken from Japanese methods; 101....my ex once told me, this is how people talk/think about suicide in Japan....did we borrow that for their Public Service program from Japan ?

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Want to "Help Change Things " , how about doing a suicide series on the Japanese Epidemic?

What is the Body Count for USA vs Japan?; how about THAT?

sounds like it was taken from Japanese methods; 101....my ex once told me, this is how people talk/think about suicide in Japan....did we borrow that for their Public Service program from Japan ?

It's not about Japan, America or any other country. It's about suicide.

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OK there HaaaNemui;

Point taken.

$$ Answer me this; why does everyone look so "Happy" with themselves ?

...while they make a show about Suicide. $$

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Of course they're happy about the money but they're at a promotional event celebrating the show's success and sometimes people are allowed to have fun at these things. Even happens at fundraisers for most charities. But maybe we could change the law. Might be a place in the force for you.

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I have not seen a single episode of this, nor do I ever plan to. Quite frankly I am done with all "teen" drama to begin with and reality shows for that matter.

"Hannah's tapes blame others for her suicide. Suicide is never the fault of survivors of suicide loss," the memo cautioned."

That is positively untrue in certain circumstances. If a person is bullied repeatedly over and over again, beaten, made fun of on a constant basis, tortured and raped (even completely ignored as if they do not exsist on purpose as a punishment qualifies) and everyone including the schools/community knows about it, it is very much the fault of both those doing it and those choosing to ignore.

On a side note, the Bible and any other religious book should come with a warning lable since it is still ok to be read by children where it talks of killing entire groups of people. A double standard for sure.

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