The first season of Netflix 13 Reasons Why. Promos were/are appealing, unique and intriguing. I’d even say sexy. Netflix 13 Reasons Why tells a story of  Hannah Baker  who  commits suicide but before her tragic end she buys a pack of  blank cassette tapes. Records her truth of 13 reasons  why  to her 13 friends as to her reasons   she  commits  suicide .  The dialuge. The music, the graphics.  And the images of the old school audio tapes. Draws you in.

Yeah this Netflix series  glamorizes  suicide. Before It’s  release .  The  excitement  around the show. Critic  reviews. And the social media commentary.  Was very positive. With a few keyboard gangsta trolls. Putting their asshole opinion in the mix. Everyone has one right? There was the forgotten, the very impressionable. Vulnerable  suicidal pre teen.  That Teen and that young 20 something college kid.  We live in a social media FB LIVE Snapchat IG world.  Of monkey see monkey do. Before and after the Netflix premier.  Suicide prevention experts.  Raised concern  lead to a suicide-contagion effect and a spate of copycat attempts. Research published at the end of July 2017 argued that those concerns may have been founded. Google queries about suicide rose by almost 20 percent in 19 days after the show came out, representing between 900,000 and 1.5 million more searches than usual regarding the subject. Reading these statistics is just  terrifying.  Yes there have been some copycat  suicides after these vonrable impressionable young viewers watched  Netflix 13 Reasons Why. Two Suicides  really got me. Was the two californa teens Bella Herndon and Percila Chi who committed  suicide  just hours of it’s premiere.  In their parents grief they want Netflix to stop airing season 1 and cancel plans of season 2.

One of the parents saying that the Netflix show gives a blueprint for  suicide. They said that the Netflix show  was a blueprint for suicide. But is it really a blueprint for suicide for EVERY CHILD  OR ADULT? Or is it for the vonarable suicidal teen?

That vonarable pre teen. That vonrable  young adult. Or that vonrable older adult. Who are unable to distinguish right from wrong. We can’t just blame Netflix programming. On a preisting problem. If WE know of a loved one who is  suicidal and has suicidal thoughts. We have  to be diligent and know who? what? where?  Who are their friends and who are their parents and other family members And WHAT they are hearing on the radio  and seeing on Television and streaming services Like Netflix.

IF YOU KNOW OF A  LOVED ONE, A FRIEND OR EVEN YOURSELF WHO IS THINKING OF  SUICIDE CALL THE NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE @ 1-800-273-8255 OR TEXT CRISIS TEXT HOTLINE TEXT HOME 741741

READ MORE HERE——>  https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/13-reasons-why-demonstrates-cultures-power/535518/