I don't think you're reading the stories right, these
kids are dealing with more than the average "mocking" or teasing. These kids are being bullied and harassed on a daily basis. That's not "what life throws at you".
I get it. I get who they were. I dont think you're accounting for the fact that this occurs much more than this. If every kid who was treated that way commited suicide at 13, there'd be a good handful of suicides every month for various different reasons. I've seen some kids be absolutely tormented socially, physically, and emotionally in school.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you weren't bullied that much as a kid?
Bullied? No. Rejected? Yes. I play myself a sad song on the world's smallest violin every day. I'm a lone wanderer, through thick and thin. I keep very few people close to be because of that. I still put up with it today. Yes, listen to be feeling all bad for myself. Not.
Glad that's out.
HIGHLY unlikely from what we know about suicide and depression. Also there is no evidence that these 13 year olds even knew about the other stories.
Well congratulations. Now you know what I was
suggesting a few days ago.
Calm down. You're just all over the place and keep clouding up your own point. You seem to have a hard time grasping that the day to day tormenting was enough to drive these kids to suicide. You keep looking for another explanation and saying "it's life".
Good lord please dont ever tell me that I have a hard time grasping the day to day tormenting, you know nothing about me.
How is it you expect a 13 year old to understand "that's what life throws at you" which is an incredibly difficult concept for a 13 year old, yet you don't believe such an "underdeveloped" mind can be depressed enough to consider suicide?
This is a very conflicting point of view. Can you not see that?
This argument has been going around in circles since it first started. A 13 year old mind can be depressed enough to commit suicide. Nothing in these articles that you've claimed I've read wrong suggests any level of intensity (other than in the case of Asher Brown, where his parents claim he was 'bullied to death').
Besides, that's what I've been suggesting all along. That either the kid was weak spirited, it was worse than we think (i.e. something more than just being bullied, such as in the Clementi case where a specific trigger lead him to his actions following probable deep depression), or they were influenced (well, if he took his life, maybe there is no hope after all?).