Tag: Suicide prevention

Why do this?  When Netflix already has safe guards already in place. Netflix does have parental  control over the their children’s content. It is up to the parent and or gaurdien to look and listen to what their child is doing. It is the parents RESPONSIBILITY to insure that their  suicidal child or that  heavily influenced child does NOT look at programs like this. It is he parents RESPONSIBILITY to make sure  vulnerable child is not on social media.  Why escalate the child triggers when you allow it .  You have to watch your children like hawks.

If you are a teen, pre teen, young adult or adult who is having  suicidal thoughts Call The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255 Or Text Crisis text hotline Text Home 741741 

The Parents Television Council wants the streamer to hold off on airing the hit show until “experts in the scientific community have determined it to be safe for consumption” by minors. The Parents Television Council wants Netflix to hit pause on the second season of its hit teen drama 13 Reasons Why.

Ahead of its expected second-season premiere this year, the conservative and publicly funded group on Wednesday urged the streaming giant to hold off on releasing the Brian Yorkey suicide drama until “experts in the scientific community have determined it to be safe for consumption by an audience that is comprised heavily of minor children.”

After becoming an instant phenomenon, 13 Reasons Why found itself thrust into a global conversation about how some of its tough subjects in the high school drama were handled, specifically the graphic depiction of teenager Hannah Baker’s (Katherine Langford) suicide. The series revolves around Hannah’s unexplained suicide — which was shown up close — and the 13 audiotapes she left behind for her classmates to decipher and ultimately understand why she took her own life…..

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