Posted on 04/26/2006 11:46:31 PM PDT by M203M4
An 18-year-old Singaporean student committed suicide last month because he was convinced his penis was too small, a report said on Wednesday.
State Coroner Tan Boon Heng said the case highlighted the importance of sex education in schools and recommended the details be forwarded to the education ministry, the Straits Times reported.
The teenager, who was not named, jumped from a building on March 3. A suicide note explained why, an investigation to determine the cause of death said.
"He said it was not due to the stress of his examination, but it was more about his physical development... He still knew there was something wrong with his body parts," said the report quoted by the newspaper.
It said the teenager had confided in his mother in October 2005 that he was worried about the size of his penis. She took him to a clinic where a doctor said it was normal for an Asian man and prescribed multi-vitamins.
State Coroner Tan said the boy's case showed that even in the age of the Internet when information can be easily obtained, "the less informed also become victims to junk information and worse, untruths."
Psychiatrist Daniel Fung, deputy chief of the child and adolescent department at the Institute of Mental Health, said the teenager might have been suffering from depression.
"It might be more about depression than his private parts being too small," Fung told AFP.
"Sometimes depression can lead to delusions about how you look and how you are. It makes you see things from a dark perspective."
HUH?
Sorry to post and run but I'm being nagged to go to sleep and this is too earth shattering to not post ASAP. :)
why kill yourself over such a small thing?
His nickname was Ti Nee Dong.
Could have hung himself.
So after getting the nerve to tell somebody he had a micro pecker, a psychiatrist told him he was crazy.
Armed with this new diagnosis, he killed himself.
oy vey!
Untruths? So it wasn't too small? I'm confused! It is possible (despite what the coroner says) that he was underblessed. I mean, sorry, Coroner Tan, but the women who told you "size doesn't matter" weren't being entirely honest.
Well, apparently size does matter.
Teeny-weeny-weinie ping.
You can't make this stuff up!
Gee, ya think?
Maybe I am silly, but I normally don't consider suicide to be a symptom of excessive happiness.
Luckily, this was never a problem for me.
Big?
It's so big, there's still snow on it in the summertime.
It's so big, right now it's in the other room fixing me a drink.
It's so big, U.S. West nailed some fiber optic lines to the top, and I didn't feel it until the next Thursday.
It's so big, NASA launched a space probe to find the end.
It's so big, it won't return Speilberg's calls.
Yep, that big.
Darwin nominee for the year!!!
pingaling... for the dingaling king!
I don't know, martin, you've never let this get to *you*, have you?
Boy, THAT would depress me!
I wish I could like to repost this to bring it back to the top.
We could have some fun with this one...
And there's, what, a billion Chinese or so, so it must not matter too much.
Maybe the women have tiny parts, too, so it balances out.
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