A teenage girl committed suicide because she thought the act would impress fans of emo music, an inquest has been told.
Hannah Bond, 13, hung herself from a bunk bed in her bedroom after telling her parents that she was going to kill herself.
The teenager, who was described by her mother as a “normal girl”, apparently left a suicide note which was signed with the nickname Living Disaster.
The inquest was told that the teenager had lived a double life and was a devout following of emo music.
The coroner in the inquest, Roger Sykes, said he found elements of the emo movement “very disturbing”.
Bond was a fan of My Chemical Romance and had spoken secretly on chatrooms about The Black Parade – which was also the title of the band’s last album.
According to the Telegraph, in a tribute book at the teenager’s school one pupil wrote: “I hope you enjoy the black parade.”
It emerged recently that fans of emo, which stands for emotional, were being attacked in cities across Mexico because of their appearance.
At a concert in the country last month, My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way spoke directly to fans, saying the band “don’t want to see any fucking violence.”
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- Emo is a myth, isn’t all music emotional?
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- A ’movement’? It’s just posh wankers in shit clothes, isn’t it??
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- Emo is goth for lightweights.
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- It’s an unentertaining music genre that has involved into a lifestyle choice for people who claim not to want to follow a fashion. Its fundamentally hypocritical. Not too mention the impressionable youth feel they have to mimic the depressive and sad emotions often portrayed in this genre
- Everyone knows society is to blaim
especially the papers with their scapegoating propoganda
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