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The people at your school sound ridiculously self-righteous. The ones that didn't really know him but are pushing it onto you are probably trying to make themselves feel good. I personally think that the concept of your whole school wearing black to "honor" someone's life isn't bad, but if they're forcing people to, that's annoying.

And lol a lot of kids suicide because of school. Your school kind of failed in that department.

say "If you're really serious about honoring his death, the least you could do is use proper spelling and grammar."

lol, he doesn't deserve to be honoured but paying your respect for someone's death is pretty normal.

@dianasaur It's not about his choice IMO i think it's about paying their respects.
DO you think that just because everyone else is saying that wear black that that is paying your respects to the boy who commited suicide? People pay their respects in their each individual way. It's not a group thing because everyone mourns and acts and is different. Just because you wear black doesnt mean that your paying your respects neccesarily, IMO i think you are just doing whatever everyone else is telling you to do because that is what they think paying their respects means. Like i said though. My dad passed away and if i seen anyone wearing black the next day, I would tell them to GTHO.

Honestly tho, No, they arent paying their respects, IMO they are tryna be cool and get a big ass group to do something that THEY think is paying their respect. What is wearing black going to do? Will it help the family deal with this situation? No. Common sense. My dad passed away from cancer and if i seen a big group of people the next day wearing black at my school i would take down every dam one of them and cuss them out.. This is sad though very Upsetting to know that people commit suicide everyday. :{

[quote=yumtoast154]Happened twice when I was in high school over.

One of them jumped into an ACE train that comes by on a daily basis; there's a railroad right next to the school. Traffic that day was horrendous.

Ironically, the other one jumped into a moving train 2 years later.[/quote]

Weird. In my senior year this girl got run over by a train without knowing...so it was accidental, no suicide. They said she had her ipod on blast, but I call bs on that, especially when a train is loud as hell.

You shouldn't. Do what you want, they can't make you do anything just because someone you don't know died.

[quote=adorkable] lol more like you didnt have the balls to do it.[/quote]

hahahaha :'D
Are you listening to yourself? I don't have balls because I refused to commit suicide? Hahaha

[quote=adorkable]killing yourself isnt exactly an easy thing to do, so whoever that kid was, he must have been going through a lot of pain, which youve probably never experienced so your not rly in a position to be questioning someones respect[/quote]

I have considered suicide repetitively through out these past years. Don't make assumptions.

In the end, I realized that suicide is cowardly and greedy.

Why would you show respect to somebody who took the short road?

[quote=KoreanNick]Don't do it. The kid who commited suicide is dumb af. NEVER commit suicide, there's other ways.[/quote]

It's not dumb how a kid committed suicide, you can't just judge the person by being dumb because he chooses to end his life. You won't know why because you don't know him.
I just find the whole concept of acknowledging a person by wearing tshirts BECAUSE of his death is pretty pathetic, he gets attention after his death; rather than, before his death.

[quote=Watermelown]I know that this has been said already, but wear white just to mess with them.

Then express your feelings through [url=http://pics.blameitonthevoices.com/022011/small_thom%20yorkes%20dance%20moves.jpg]interpretive dance.[/url][/quote]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BthLc1zxTyQ

-Honoring someone who commited suicide

I sense some logic fail

Don't do it. The kid who commited suicide is dumb af. NEVER commit suicide, there's other ways.

People need to learn to stand up for themselves. Not just quit.

lol thats stupid. Id wear the brightest color I can.

A girl in my town got moolested, stabbed and burned. she just moved here too.

Black armbands would be sensible.

just where those funeral hats. i know it's not right to disrespect him but the heat can come a great price. may that kid rest in piece

That's because you're young and ignorant.

Wouldn't you want people to pay their respects to you if you killed yourself? Obviously, at the time of committing suicide you wouldn't think that or be in your right mind but, as a right-minded individual you would. You'd want people to know who you are and at least feel bad.

I would if I knew him, otherwise I'd probably ignore the whole thing to not give so much attention to it and hopefully a better solution

Well, that's what happens when you get in a deep coma after one accident and ventured into a dream where you could live a happy life if you departed from your current.
That guy must have felt that way somehow.

But geez, just show that person some empathy is not enough in their eyes? Cruelful. :S

Many students lose loved ones, but they don't plead strangers to wear all black to honor their loved ones as if they knew the person personally. The best thing a stranger can offer is empathy, but to force someone to pay respect by wearing all black is unethical. Also, they seem to be implying that if a student were not to wear black, it would be disrespectful to the student. How naive...

I wonder how his/her friends feel. Condolences to the kid

@rlbmut Hes right. Everyone problem can be solved, but suicide is not the solution.

Yeah but, even though you're being forced to do it,
I suppose wearing black wouldn't hurt you, for a day.
So why not?

Ask them how the colour of someone's shirt is supposed to honor them. That'll stump them.

@konfooshus: its heartless and ignorant from both sides since when you kill yourself your relatives and friends suffer the same or more
and i know a dad who became an alchologic after his son killed himself (he was a friend of my brother)

If I was there, I'd wear white.
Forget paying respects to people that I don't know.

[quote=pinoymystic]I don't get what's with all the negative posts in this thread.
You still have to respect a person that's died in WHATEVER situation that's happened. Even so the guy killed himself, you can't just "not do anything about it." That seems like, "Oh, yeah. he killed himself." Or are they supposed to act apathetic? At least the school thought of something to think about his situation rather than just leave the situation alone. It's like saying your best friend committed suicide. Wouldn't you want to do something about it? Regardless of the situation, you must always pay your respects to whoever has died. They lived a life, what if your life was taken away?[/quote]

Thousands of people die daily, why don't you wear <insert random color here> every day ;_;

I'd wear all white and say that I'm Hindu.

(Hindus wear all white when mourning death.)

I don't get what's with all the negative posts in this thread.
You still have to respect a person that's died in WHATEVER situation that's happened. Even so the guy killed himself, you can't just "not do anything about it." That seems like, "Oh, yeah. he killed himself." Or are they supposed to act apathetic? At least the school thought of something to think about his situation rather than just leave the situation alone. It's like saying your best friend committed suicide. Wouldn't you want to do something about it? Regardless of the situation, you must always pay your respects to whoever has died. They lived a life, what if your life was taken away?

[quote=brofist]you know whats even more heartless and ignorant

[i]suicide[/i][/quote]

Hey broski, before you call it heartless and ignorant

the people who committed suicide probably had horrible lives, either growing up or were currently living it.

If anything, it would be the people who caused the person to commit suicide to be heartless/ignorant.

grounded kid
>shows up to school with white
>"WTF YO!on1e111!"
>shunned
>loses all friends
>?
>profit

At least you didn't say "suicided".

[quote=hermit2468]Bullies only do it to look cool. It's true you know...[/quote]

Or to make themselves feel stronger and better about themselves.

Similar thing happened at my school. A girl committed suicide, and a lot of people that barely knew her at all were acting like they were so deeply affected. All the statuses that said "Rest in peace<3" and all that stuff, I don't mean to be a jerk but I disagreed with a lot of it. Especially how people that believed in Heaven and hell and all Christian kinda things said "oh, she's in a better place now." I wanted to say "um, no, according to your own beliefs, she's really not" but I knew an argument wouldn't do any good and it wouldn't be appropriate at a time like that. (I am a Christian, I just wasn't in approval of what they were saying because it didn't follow their own beliefs. Please don't quote me if you want to start a religious debate, lol)

But I agree that high schoolers just try to make something happen or say/do things to feel like good people, or something like that. Hard to explain :S

you know whats even more heartless and ignorant

[i]suicide[/i]

[quote=hermit2468]What's sad is most kids commit suicide due to bullying.
I have no respect for humanity.[/quote]

The worst part? The bullies only feel sorry after the kids dead. Sometimes they don't feel sorry at all.

That's stupid.

"HEY, LET'S DO SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY TO "RESPECT" A ROTTING CORPSE THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW. IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE A LOSER." How exactly is wearing a certain color of clothes respect? And what's the point of even respecting a dead piece of flesh? Especially if you didn't even know the person.

Are you guys all really that shallow?

To all the people who said that it doesn't matter if he took his own life, it's still a tragedy. It's not his fault, probably due to external and internal circumstances. He ended his LIFE. He's GONE FOREVER. At least pay respect to him and his family - its permanent and they're gonna have to cope with him being gone.

Was he a well known person? Did he have a lot of friends or something? Because if this isn't the case this really irritates me.

"Yeah it's hot but just do it in the honor of ___".
I don't know why, but that part sounded pretty offensive towards the person who died. It's like that person is wearing black because like s/he feels like they have to respect the dead and it seems like s/he doesn't even genuinely want to do it.

@dontran18: Wearing all black is usually how some mourn for the dead.

i remember i kid in my sister's class got killed in some skiing accident and nobody wore black...
lol

Happened twice when I was in high school over.

One of them jumped into an ACE train that comes by on a daily basis; there's a railroad right next to the school. Traffic that day was horrendous.

Ironically, the other one jumped into a moving train 2 years later.

i wonder what would happen if someone shows up in all white

I wouldn't do it, you don't even know the guy, plus why would they honor a kid that committed suicide?

One question:
Why black? - no racism included -