The controversial show about teen suicide millions of your friends on Twitter are talking about is getting increased content warnings.
The move is the latest in the conversation about the Netflix original program "13 Reasons Why", coming as a response to the backlash and concern about the show's suitability for young viewers.
The streamer released a statement Monday promising to "add an additional viewer warning card before the first episode." It has also "strengthened the messaging and resource language in the existing cards for episodes that contain graphic subject matter, including the URL 13ReasonsWhy.info."
Mental health organisations in Australia reported increased calls and emails since the program's launch in March. In April, New Zealand's classification body ruled that Netflix would have to display a clear warning for the entire series as well as individual episodes, branding it with the region's first ever RP18 rating. The new classification -- created for the program -- recommends people under the age of 18 watch the program only under the supervision of a parent or guardian.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @06:16AM
Almost everything life is a selfish act. Everything you do is for your own comfort. Working hard to give your kids a better life, donating to the poor, working to have a nice car, watching TV, trash talking other people, doing homework, etc... It's all done with an end goal of feeling better. Same with suicides. They're living in hell and death is their best way out. For the people calling it a coward's act, go try to kill yourself. It's so simple a coward can do it, but you probably can't even slice your arms open while standing in the ER knowing you'll live. So what then? You're weaker than a coward. Go die and transform back into dirt, at least dirt is useful.
Do you want to know why suicide is contagious? Around every suicide there's people calling the person a coward, selfish, and a bad person for putting everyone around them in pain (despite those people letting that suicidal person live in tons of nothingness. Nothingness is worse than pain, pain gets your body pumping, hopelessness doesn't. Why should the dead guy have been living for those others when they weren't living for him?). So the depressed person feels worse for wanting to escape their hell and they shrink in on themselves even more knowing that if they ask anyone for help they'll imminently be shunned and looked down upon and be told they're hurting the ones around them just for saying they've been depressed. It's a downward spiral where the only out is death. Better be dead, then at least you can't hurt them with your depression. The faster you die, the faster they can get over it and on with their fake happy lives.
Go climb onto a crane and dangle off it 1500 feet above a pool by holding on with one hand. Have all your friends standing in a circle around you laughing in happiness with each other (somehow you can hear and see them, perhaps you're wearing Google Glass). Now set your hand on fire. As soon as you want to put it out or show any sign of pain, have them all start bullying you by calling you an idiot, a coward, selfish, lazy, a disgrace, be told trying to save your hand would case them some pain you ungrateful bastard. They used to see you at family reunions so you better keep burning because you owe it to them for the time they wasted on you.
That's what it's like to be near suicide while around other people or the media. How long can you keep your hand on fire? Letting go to fall into the pool to end the torment from burning alive means you die when you hit the pool. In such a situation, almost every will let go and die hitting the pool rather than letting hand burn itself out. That's what suicide is, blissful relief (a quick splat) from seemingly unending torment and worse, you're not even 100% sure why you're in torment.
Why don't more people kill themselves? When you're deeply depressed you don't have the energy to make a workable plan and carry it out. That feels like way too much effort. That's like the pain from your burning hand is so totally encompassing that you've forgotten how to relax your grip.