Deplicted

July 6th, 2008 by Moth

Category:Missbehave   

15 Responses to “Deplicted”

  1. July 6th, 2008 at 3:08 pm starissleepy Says:

    creepy

  2. July 6th, 2008 at 3:16 pm Dinah Says:

    i have such mixed feelings, especially after seeing how painfully commercial it can be. my death space t-shirts? please.

  3. July 6th, 2008 at 4:48 pm Jessica Fletcher Says:

    What weirded me out most was a “licensed mental health counsellor” misusing the word, “depicted”. Hahahahaha, is licensed mental health counsellor’ another way of saying that she gives advice to her friends at the sunday night knitting circle? LOL

  4. July 6th, 2008 at 5:09 pm laurina Says:

    dude i used to go on this site… it’s scary and sad

  5. July 6th, 2008 at 6:36 pm Moth Says:

    Yeah…I landed on this site after reading the suicide article in the times this morning. What is so strange to me is the Edward Gorey/Avril Lavigne art direction. I would expect sentimental angels or Fangoria rust and guts…but cute little skulls and a hooters girl modelling t-shirts?

  6. July 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm erika Says:

    i was thinking that too, how it’s like marketed almost to hot topic kids or something, and why it’s even that flipping commercial to begin with. it seemed at first like a place where the grieving could have SOME comfort, but like that whole kids learning tool thing is bullshit because kids aren’t going on that site to think, “oh maybe i could die from drinking and driving.” because it’s impossible to scare kids into that shit. when i was in hs we had this faked auto death and had to go to a funeral, blah blah, and none us learned shit from it. this website just weirds me out.

  7. July 6th, 2008 at 6:56 pm Jessica Fletcher Says:

    @erika: i was thinking hot topic as well, it is very cutesy and pop oriented which is more creepy than the whole concept.

  8. July 6th, 2008 at 8:47 pm Moth Says:

    Wait…erika..WTF??? Your high school FAKED AN AUTO DEATH? That’s possibly the most misguided and irresponsible thing I’ve ever heard. What were the logistics? Did some complicit student disappear for a week or something? Please explain!!!

  9. July 6th, 2008 at 8:54 pm erika Says:

    yeah, actually. my high school thought it would really drive the whole drinking and driving ish home if they had a fake death. it was this “ghost out” program where we had to go to this morning assembly and stare at this completely totaled car while an officer read out all the injuries of the passengers and the reason of death of the driver (who was this kid who agreed to be absent from school for a few days)and we had to watch the ambulance drag a fake body out of the car and drive away and then a day later we had to attend this fake funeral in the gym where his parents and friends had to dress in black and sit in front of a casket and read a eulogy and this girl sang “arms of an angel” and everything. the kids learned nothing, everyone was depressed, the whole thing was really fucked up. it was awful.

  10. July 7th, 2008 at 12:11 am Moth Says:

    Erika….THAT IS FUCKED UP FOR SO MANY REASONS!

    Not to mention that the surprise fakeness of it all undermines the lesson. That is sick and wrong. Sometimes adults can be idiots.

  11. July 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pm Swell Says:

    i saw a segment on the fake auto accidents in high school thing on the news. it sounds traumatizing to all who are involved.

  12. July 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pm koalacc09 Says:

    this site is really messed up but anyway where
    i am from the fake accident thing actually works
    and they also show commercials that depict
    accidents and tv programs with people that had
    been in accidents so they can talk about what
    happened to them. it is traumatic but in a state
    where we used to have multiple drunk driving
    accidents involving teenagers every week and
    being #1 or 2 state in the nation for deaths
    caused by drunk driving it actually helped lower
    our numbers for deaths. it may not have worked were you are from but it worked here.

    t actually helped us brn

  13. July 8th, 2008 at 1:34 am Kati Johnson Says:

    i have a friend that died from an auto accident two weeks after turning 18. she died the day after valentines day of this year after she was hit by a car in florida while at a soccer tournament. it might be “fucked up” to hear about it but fatal auto accidents are real. i guess that kinda stuff doesn’t hit you til it hits home.

  14. July 8th, 2008 at 11:58 pm koalacc09 Says:

    exactly like one of the high schools they showed
    it to was a school that had lost like 5 students
    in a two week period so they put the kids car in
    front of the school and that was the end of that

  15. July 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm Moth Says:

    … but if you stage the whole thing, it undermines the message!!!

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