Posted on 04/20/2011 12:18:22 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
A slumber party in Minnesota ended in tragedy when two eighth grade girls fulfilled a suicide pact, killing themselves and leaving behind suicide notes telling their families that they loved them.
The bodies of best friends Haylee Fentress and Paige Moravetz, both 14, were discovered Saturday by Fentress' mother, Tracy Morrison.
Haylee's aunt, Robin Settle, said the girl had recently moved to the rural town of Lynd, Minn., and had complained to her family that she felt ostracized and bullied. Settle also said there are indications that the girls had planned their deaths for a long time, even including funeral details in a good-bye note.
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That's a strange way to tell them.
Yet a predictable result of the influences of teen pop culture...
Garbage in..garbage out..
Tragic indeed.
So very sad. For the sake of younger folks around here: This kind of thing did not used to happen. Certainly not with the frequency that it now does.
Maybe they have taken a look at their future, and decided they couldn’t face it...BFF, I guess.
A tragic waste of two lives just begun.
American culture wouldn’t have allowed them any other way, without fear of being stopped. It’s sad, but we’ve created a situation where we prevent in-person farewells.
Teen Suicide Rates In U.S. Rising
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1/22/24448.html
From 2008 so I don’t know if it still holds. Another reason to home-school. Many teen suicides seem to be related to peer problems in school.
Wonder if they have Lady Gag Gag in their iPods?
She’s looking/acting more demonic every day. Some nutty fan just slaughtered her families cat to complete a costume that she planned to wear to a GaGa concert. Google for more info.
Suicide: a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I notice that one of the girls was staying at the other girl's house because her mother and stepfather went away on a "10 day Hawaiian vacation" without her.
I also notice that one of the girls hyphenated her own last name with the other girl's last name on her Facebook page.
Their relationship was evidently closer than a normal friendship.
There were things going on in their lives other than "the kids at school were mean to me."
I do wonder which had the most influence
Yeah, you should have seen the crowds at The Globe. They were so bewildered at Romeo & Juliet, never having heard of two teenagers making a suicide pact.
I'm sure Shakespeare (or Edward de Vere) is to blame for this.
I can’t judge what the girls were thinking but I know that as a parent, having you child kill themselves (for any perceived reason) has to be the worst thing in the world.
Especially if you left her thousands of miles away to go party in Hawaii before she did it.
Or, conversely, perhaps that kind of parent would take the news far better than a good parent would.
At the hockey game monday I sat next to some ‘lady’ who was telling her boyfriend she wanted to move to Oregon because they had physician assisted suicide
Wouldn't it be worse to know your child is in so much pain that they'd prefer death but failed and had to endure what was worse than death to them?
We can only guess, but that seems likely. It's a shame that kids would get to the point that they felt that way about their current situation and the future--and that they couldn't seek help for it.
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