July selection for Myspace Suicide case began on Nov. 18, Tuesday.

Megan Merier, a Missouri 13 -year-old girl was found  hanged herself in her bedroom on Oct 16, 2006.

She had been suffered from depression and attension defict disorder, but what drove her to commit a suiside was abusive messgaes on My space from her online friend, a teenage boy named Josh.

However, the after Megan commited suiside, her parents found Josh didn’t really excist.

Josh’s profile was fake created by a group of adults including Lori Drew.

Pretending to be Josh, she send messeges that says that Megan is a bad person, and the world would be better without Megan.

Drew’s daughter and Megan used to be friends.

Drew says that she created Josh because she wanted Megan to know how she was mean to her own daughter.

When I heard about this news, I was suprised at how Drew and other adults who bullied Megan were inmature.

I’ve heard many stories about teenagers who commited suisides because they were bullied by other teenagers, but not by a group of adults.
Drew is 47year-old. It is awful that old people bullied a helpless girl like Megan.

After I read this news, I thought about  how suiside stories are covered in Japan.

The Kcal9  coverage of Megan’s story objectively told what exactly happened to Megan and
how Megan’s parents claim damages against Drew and other adults.

If the same kind of news were distributed in Japan, the story would sound different.

Many people in Japan still tend to see commiting a suiside as an honorble act although most of them know it is wrong.

Media would realize a story and talk about how the victim protected his or her honor by commiting a suiside.

The strange way of media coverage became an issue in Japan a couple of years ago.
Since media was making suicide from bulling sounds better, their coverage encouraged other depressed teenagers in the similar situations to commite suisides, and lot of them killed themselves.

It seems very hard to take a decent stand to cover the news with considering both audience and fragile teenagers…

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Evidence-of-13-Year-Olds-Suicide-Can-Be-Used-in-Myspace-Hoax-Trial.html