"Teenager kills himself after listening to metal music"

Sofaspud · 19-04-2013 07:56PM #1

A schoolboy killed himself after listening to death metal on his iPod, an inquest has heard.

Truman Edley, who was just 15 at the time of his death, hanged himself in the hallway of the family home in Rotherham after he had been listening to the violent music.

A coroner refused to name the band he was listening to or publish the extreme lyrics which formed part of the evidence at the inquest in Rotherham.

The official also noted that Truman had been suffering from a number of problems, and his mother said that he had 'self-esteem' issues.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311557/Loving-teenager-hanged-listening-death-metal-music-dark-lyrics-glorified-death.html

A ridiculous example of the daily mail (there's the first problem) blaming music for what was obviously a much deeper problem. the article goes on to say

She discovered his body at their home in November 2011, two months after she had found him sobbing in his bedroom wardrobe.

So there had obviously been an ongoing problem with him, and yet the headline and the majority of the article focus on the fact that he listened to metal music.

I thought the world (and even the Daily Mail) had moved on from blaming music, but apparently depression and mental health troubles simply aren't important enough to report on without firing up the pitchforks about something.

joe stodge · 19-04-2013 07:58PM

I call shananigans on this bull****.

brummytom · 19-04-2013 08:02PM

Ah, The Daily Mail. Must be true.

Links234 · 19-04-2013 08:03PM

Blaming music? I didn't know there was anything left in the barrel to scrape >_<

13spanner · 19-04-2013 08:04PM

Obviously more going on behind the scenes. Can't blame it solely on what he had on the iPod.

That said, I doubt many people have hung themselves listening to ABBA...

May he rest in peace.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 19-04-2013 08:05PM

If music contributed to suicides, how come Daniel O Donnell hasn't got a kill streak yet.

Stupid tabloid sensationalism.

Clandestine · 19-04-2013 08:05PM

Above all, I hope no one takes this seriously. He had a host of other issues, the music had nothing to do with it

If music makes people kill themselves, there should have been a rake of suicides everytime Red House Painters or Katatonia released a new album

gcgirl · 19-04-2013 08:06PM

13spanner wrote: »

Obviously more going on behind the scenes. Can't blame it solely on what he had on the iPod.

That said, I doubt many people have hung themselves listening to ABBA...

May he rest in peace.

Have you ever listened to ABBA backwards?

Steve O · 19-04-2013 08:07PM

I hope they don't name the band, you'll have the merry band of daily fail vigilante nutcases after them.

PC Glyn Farrell, who attended the scene of the death, said he was a fan of death metal but admitted it could be depressive.

'I do listen to that sort of music myself, which has a lot of screaming with heavy guitar sounds,'

LOL whuttt...

Defiler Of The Coffin · 19-04-2013 08:08PM

Daft sensationalist headline. The article said that he had been suffering from other problems.

Heart goes out to the family

Kiwi in IE · 19-04-2013 08:08PM

That tabloid should also have found out what he had for breakfast that day. Then they could have had a choice of headlines between the "metal music" and "Boy kills himself after eating Cheerios".

Reality however is probably something along the lines of "Boy kills himself due to unrecognised, untreated depression".

kraggy · 19-04-2013 08:09PM

If I kill myself after dinner, does that mean eating is evil?

Rented Mule · 19-04-2013 08:11PM

The kid killed himself in 2011.....but it's new today !!

Lawrence1895 · 19-04-2013 08:12PM

Something like that still exists? It was all around the tabloids already, when I was teenager...30 years ago :rolleyes:

Yakult · 19-04-2013 08:13PM

Haven't seen a headline like that in a while :rolleyes:
And if you believe it you are even thicker than the fools that write it.
Bigger issues than that to worry about reading the article, which highlighting might actually benefit readers who know someone who may be suffering similarly. But of course, easier to play the blame game and mask the real ****ing issues..

Tigger · 19-04-2013 08:15PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxenmxwgZsk

20 year ago there were court case over this stuff

LoonyLovegood · 19-04-2013 08:16PM

I'm fed up of the Daily Mail doing this. They seem to take perverse pleasure in going to the inquests of young teenagers, finding out that they listened to music that isn't Top 40 or is 'unconventional', and using it to say that it's the reason they killed themselves. They did the same thing with poor Hannah Bond. She started listening to My Chemical Romance, then killed herself, blaming the band. If they did just a tiny bit of research they would have copped on.

Their other headlines have included "Why no child is safe from the cult of emo". I really need to stop going to that site and giving them views.

Kiwi in IE · 19-04-2013 08:33PM

This was a big thing when I was a teenager 20 years ago. We had a religious nutbar neighbour who was forever warning my mother of the dangers of letting me listen to Guns n' Roses and Metallica.

Nailz · 19-04-2013 08:35PM

Tigger wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxenmxwgZsk

20 year ago there were court case over this stuff

Aye, Judas Priest had to put up with this crap in 1990 over the Stained Glass album version of "Better By You, Better Than Me", a song released 12 years before; wonder why it took someone so long to do it. :rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqAPVB4u9Zs

In the words of Bill Hicks...

"What performer wants their audience dead?"

Napper Hawkins · 19-04-2013 08:36PM

I never understood this logic of "angry, violent music = depressed person".

Surely if any music was going to cause a downer in someone it would be the likes of Radiohead's older material?

Or is mainstream music that has made a lot of money exempt from this sort of ignorant nonsense?

shopaholic01 · 19-04-2013 08:36PM

Did hid mother try to get him help after finding him sobbing in his wardrobe?

Meleftone · 19-04-2013 08:40PM

gcgirl wrote: »

Have you ever listened to ABBA backwards?

Still sounds like ABBA

BrokenArrows · 19-04-2013 08:40PM

How many teens have killed themselves listening to sad , slow **** music. You dont see that making the papers.

returnNull · 19-04-2013 08:42PM

13spanner wrote: »

That said, I doubt many people have hung themselves listening to ABBA...

yeah but you start off listening to ABBA. Thats the problem right there!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 19-04-2013 08:48PM

Rented Mule wrote: »

The kid killed himself in 2011.....but it's new today !!

The inquest into his death only happened this week.

Steve O · 19-04-2013 08:49PM

It really is low to use a kids death to sell newspapers. Then again the daily fail never ceases to disgust.

Festy · 19-04-2013 08:52PM

Steve O wrote: »

I hope they don't name the band, you'll have the merry band of daily fail vigilante nutcases after them.

LOL whuttt...

Could be MM

I know that one of his songs does end with " you might as well kill yourself you're already dead"

kona · 19-04-2013 08:52PM

Death metal is more likely to make a kid go out n create violence than kill themselves. Plenty of other bmainstream bands that are ****ing depressive , Coldplay?

kona · 19-04-2013 08:53PM

Festy wrote: »

Could be MM

I know that one of his songs does end with " you might as well kill yourself you're already dead"

He's not death metal lol

FoxT · 19-04-2013 08:53PM

Its that feckin death metal. They should ban it immediately.

And look...look at this - Justin Beiber should be banned too! He upsets small children, for Gods sake..

Thank you, Daily Mail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCm8tdHkfI

Festy · 19-04-2013 08:54PM

kona wrote: »

He's not death metal lol

Metal or Death Metal it all sounds the same to the old folks

"Teenager kills himself after listening to metal music"

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