I hate it when people use suicide as a form as attention. Making the people with real issues lesser understood and easier to dismiss as a joke. When you see someone in Graal City for example saying they'll kill themselves, it's an obvious bluff. Those people are the ones who should really kill themselves. Most people who are going to actually suicide don't tell anyone, or just one or two people they trust. Attention hoes deserve to die more if anything.

whenever someone says they will commit suicide i tell them to try to do a backflip or 360

Or there could literally be no reason at all. Some people just crack.

Where I'm from, we have had 13 teen suicides in the last few years. The "suicide awareness" hype does absolutely nothing. At my school, it has literally turned into a charade for people to bring positive attention to themselves. After every suicide in my town, people at my school wear yellow, while continuing to judge one another and ignore the people who may need a friend the most. I think people should truly change something, because wearing yellow has become extremely hypocritical and fake in my eyes, thus why I never take part in it.

As cheesy as it sounds, loving one another is really the only solution, and that doesn't even always work. Some people have a twisted and warped way of looking at things, and there isn't much people can do about it. Unless of course, they themselves ask for help.

Bullying is definitely a cause though, so I'd encourage everyone to just be accepting of one another. One of the main problems in life is that people care far too much about what others think. If you can defeat that mindset, you'll have an easier time accepting and helping others.

*sniff* That was BEAUTIFUL. I honestly hate it when people use something like that as a way to bring attention to themselves. If they want attention, them they should do something worth paying attention to instead of acting all depressed. There are plenty of other people who deserve the attention. I actually know a guy who essentially used his being "suicidal" as a form of blackmail. It's disgusting really.

Very true. What's an anti-bullying rally going to do to stop bullies? Who cares if all these celebrities are getting involved and playing music at the crowd for these rallies. Exactly, where are the bullies? In the very same crowd at the anti-bullying rally. Having a good time. Next day at school, same thing happens again. Nothing changes. They sugar coat it way too much. Like you said, wear yellow to support the cause. What exactly is that gonna do? "Oh, you didn't wear yellow look at you. You don't care for all those poor sad people."

Often times that isn't the case. It's just the mentality where they think they're helping but nothing changes. Sure, there's awareness out there. But who's going to step up and say so-and-so is getting bullied or wants to commit suicide then seek help for them? That's what truly counts.

Yeah, yeah, it's always fun to joke about suicide until you've been in a situation where you lose a loved one or you almost go through it yourself.

At the moment, nobody is really joking about it, just discussing. Well, Higbey is, but that's normal.

In all honesty the idea of "Suicide Prevention Week" or "Suicide Awareness" is simply stupid, no one is gonna decide "Hey! There is a suicide prevention week, I should go talk with someone about my problems!", and with today's teenage society no one will think "Damn what if that kid I joke about is gonna kill them self? I should be nice to them!", or someone's parents thinking "Hey what if me and my ex's divorce is having a really big impact on our kid's life? I should talk to them about this serious issue! Thanks suicide prevention week!".

To me it's one of those things that gets some applause for the thought but really does absolutely nothing. And now that think about it, I have never even heard of this. No one has mentioned it at my school, no parents know about it, it isn't in the newspaper. And trust me bullying and suicide isn't a rare thing where I live, the district actually requires all schools to participate in an "anti-bully" program, which as a side-note also does nothing to solve any problems involving suicide and or bullying.

The only reason I knew about Suicide Awareness Day (which ironically spells SAD) before the actual day was because one of my best friends posted it multiple times over Facebook as a way to show she cared for the previously mentioned guy who used suicidal feelings as a form of blackmail. Obviously, it isn't doing much if barely anyone knows about it or cares to remember.

I thought it was Suicide awareness week.

It was advertised to me as Suicide Awareness Day, but SAW is a nice acronym too.

wearing a certain color shows you care sooo much,
/sarcasm

Well I guess no one had the time to come up with an interesting event for something that is supposedly a HUGE problem.

Really, it should e suicide prevention year every year. I don't get these "be nice for a day/week then return to being an ass the next day/week" holidays. Either you feel strongly for wanting something to stop that you invest in making things better full time, or you stop bandwaggoning and continue being a cancer to the human race. EX: Higbey

Ironically one of the arguments I used to troll is that by releasing carcinogens and pollution and living in the industrial age we are actually causing cancer to be more frequent and thus indirectly all slowly killing ourselves.