Article: 'Emo' music is far from a black suicide cult; After an inquest into the suicide of a 13-year-old girl earlier this month linked the Emo genre of music and fashion to the glamorisation of death among young people, Sophie Brown, 14, from Llandybie, writes from a teenage perspective the wednesday essay.(News)

Byline: Sophie Brown

A LOT of teenagers want to grow up too quickly these days. It isn't healthy. You hear so much about pregnancies and underage sex. And then there's the whole issue of teen suicides.

Recently, a coroner linked the death of Hannah Bond in Kent with her liking for Emo music.

But, in my view, that's an easy scapegoat. People make their own choices and would not simply do something of that magnitude because a song told them to.

Suicide is a serious decision. It may even be an insult to victims to say their death was due to the music they listened ...

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