What's with the girl named Hannah Bond who commited suicide?!

Hannah Bond ,a girl of 13 hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an "Emo"!.
Emo fans wear dark clothes, practise self-harm and listen to "suicide cult" rock bands
School student Hannah Bond hanged herself not long after showing her father the cuts on her wrists as part of her 'emo initiation'
Two weeks before her death, she started following U!.S!. band My Chemical Romance!.

One of their songs contains the lyrics: "Although you're dead and gone, believe me your memory will go on!."

Hannah, described as a model pupil, had started cutting her wrists but told her father it was part of an initiation into the Emo fashion!.

Coroner Roger Sykes said that Hannah's death was "not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of a young life"!.
Hannah's mother Heather told the inquest she had researched the trend since her daughter's death!.There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves," she said!.
"She called Emo a fashion and I thought it was normal!."
She added: "Hannah was a normal girl!. She had loads of friends!. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager!."
Hannah's father Ray, a karate teacher, said: "Two weeks before, I saw the cuts!. I asked her about them and she said it was an Emo initiation!.
"She promised me she would never do it again!."

Hannah gave her name as Living Disaster on her page on social networking website Bebo!.
The page is decorated with a picture of an Emo girl with bloody wrists after slashing herself!.

Another picture shows a child's exercise book scrawled with the words: "Dear Diary, today I give up!. !. !."

The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, heard Hannah had been with her boyfriend at a friend's house on the evening of September 22 last year!.She had been angry when she was told she was not allowed to sleep over and when she got home in East Peckham she went straight to her room, saying: "I want to kill myself!."

The inquest was told Hannah had not used drugs or alcohol before her death but Vanessa Everett, her head teacher at Mascalls School, said self-harm had become commonplace among other Emo fans!.

Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: "The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing!."

The Emo phenomenon began in the U!.S!. in the 1980s!. It is a largely teenage trend and is characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide!.

Followers wear tight jeans with studded belts and wristbands!. Their hair is dyed black and worn in long fringes to obscure their faces!.

Emo - from the word emotional - is a reference to the angst-filled lyrics and melancholy themes of the rock music central to the culture!.

One of the foremost of these "suicide cult" bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey!.

Their first single, Welcome to the Black Parade, from the album The Black Parade, was released in 2006 and became a huge hit, going to number one in Britain!.

The concept album follows the story of a character called The Patient, who dies of cancer!.
The Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die!.After the tragical history of Hannah Bond, many newspapers have started to say that the suicide of the young girl is due to My Chemical Romance and their music!.

Writing on the My Chemical Romance website, the band offered their condolences to Bond's family!. They went on to say that as a band they were "anti-suicide", and that one of their aims was to provide "comfort, support and solace" to their fans!.

The message read: "We have recently learned of the suicide and tragic loss of Hannah Bond!. We'd like to send our condolences to her family during this time of mourning!. Our hearts and thoughts are with them!.

"My Chemical Romance are and always have been vocally anti-violence and anti-suicide!. As a band, we have always made it one of our missions through our actions to provide comfort, support, and solace to our fans!.

Anyway, I really don't think wearing pink and black skinny jeans and a Black Parade t-shirt can make you suicidal, and the newspapers who have written about this sort of thing really are ignorant and narrow minded!.
And all that stuff that they wrote about the Black Parade being the place where emos think they go when they die!? Utter crap!. It's the whole goths are satanists thing again (that by the way, is aonther example of people being narrow minded and ignorant)!. An emo can be whatever religion it wants!. Emo is not areligion, it's just a way of dressing and a genre of music!.
My chemical romance are really not a depressing band, they just write about how they feel!. It's not like they've gone out to the world and yelled at every kid who has hair over one eye (or both) "Hey kids! Why don't we all have some fun and cut our wrists open untill we bleed to death! YAY!" I think any emo who does things like that just to be emo doesn't have the right to call themselves emo, they're just posers!.


"The message and theme of our album 'The Black Parade' is hope and courage!. Our lyrics are about finding the strength to keep living through pain and hard times!. The last song on our album states: 'I am not afraid to keep on living'

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