Posted on 10/05/2009 9:09:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
First Pictures Of 'Suicide Pact' Teenagers Who Died Hand In Hand By Jumping 125Ft From Bridge
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER 06th October 2009
[Pics in URL] Two teenage girls leapt hand-in-hand from a bridge to their deaths after one left a 'suicide' message on a social networking site.
The friends, aged 14 and 15, jumped more than 100ft from a notorious suicide spot and plunged into a river.
Yesterday, classmates of Georgia Rowe and Neve Lafferty wept as police tried to unravel the mystery of their tragic pact.
Georgia Rowe (left), 14, and Neve Lafferty, 15, took their own lives in what looks like a suicide pact, jumping from the Erskine Bridge in Scotland
On her page of the internet social networking site Bebo, troubled Miss Lafferty left a message, written in heavy slang, making reference to friendship and jumping from a bridge.
The message reads: 'Me Nd Yhoo Are Friends ...Yhoo Fight, I Fight..Yhoo Hurt I Hurt.. Yhoo Cry, I Cry .. Yhoo Jump Off I Bridge ill Miss Yhoo!!'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218214/First-picture-Neve-Lafferty-15-died-jumping-125ft-bridge-suicide-pact-14-year-old-girl-pupil.html#ixzz0T7phCsHz
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Why do we want to see pictures of this?
It’s just pictures of the girls, not of the jump.
sad
“It’s just pictures of the girls, not of the jump.”
Heck, I’d rather see pictures of the jump, if I had a choice. But why would we want to see pictures of either? I thought it was customary not to publicize suicides.
14 and 15.
What have we come to where we put children in a position where they think life isn’t worth living?
I suspect it is the drama “they’ll miss me when I’m gone!” and the teen idea that nothing is permanent — not even death.
And the only way for these kids to have made these posts is out of sight of their parents.
Any parent who allows their kids to have computers out of sight of parents and internet-activated cell phones is guilty of child neglect.
May God have mercy on their souls. I’m sure my Guardian Angel prevented me from doing many stupid things (especially) when I was young.
I think the pics provide a cruel sense of the sheer enormity of the tragedy that words alone may not adequately convey. Two lovely girls lost in a single moment of despair.
“I think the pics provide a cruel sense of the sheer enormity of the tragedy that words alone may not adequately convey”
Well, yes, a picture is worth a thousand words. But do we really have to experience the full tragedy? Write a novel or screenplay, if you want. I prefer newspapers to be more prosaic. Besides, I think the general public has a pretty firm grasp on the fact that Youth + Suicide = Tragedy, and as such we don’t have to belabor the point.
Given the carbon footprint that they would have imposed on the planet...and, heaven forbid, what that footprint would have been if they had kids.
Don’t laugh...having guilt beaten into you, over and over, without debate, will affect a lot of people.
Why would they do that? You can’t another high. Jump and it’s over.
I can’t read this.
I’m amazed I lived thru my turbulent childhood. Suicide, however, was never on my list of stupid acts. This is sad and permanent.
“But do we really have to experience the full tragedy?”
Sadly, some stories, like the Kennedy assassination, viewer experience is part of the story.
I think you have an excellent point here. The enviroweenies and down-with-Americaweenies pile on the stress starting in kindergarten - it's something as a parent I had to constantly deal with.
Both girls were pupils at the Roman Catholic-run Good Shepherd residential school for girls with emotional and behavioural difficulties in Bishopton, near Glasgow.
Scotland is sliding down the sewer of Ultra Leftist ideals
Godless and pointless.....It’s no wonder...
Anybody read the story of the poor kid who kissed his parents goodnight and died a few hours later from a fast-growing tumor. Very sad.
I’m sorry; I didn’t just pull the story out of the blue - it was running along side the story about the girls.
I read it and now I’m tearing up. My heart really goes out to the boy’s poor parents. Who could ever be prepared for such a terrible malady coming out of the blue and killing so quickly? I’ve never heard of such a fast growing cancer and, amazingly, not one but two cases in the UK in a matter of a week. What a nightmare!
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