This is so Sad! Parents of Teen-age kids, you should show this site to your Kids...

[Up2Late]

...if they are getting a little out of control or maybe even if they are not, it might save their lives.

I found this site after reading this article:

Web Site Archives the Dead of MySpace

Last Edited: Sunday, 29 Jul 2007, 9:47 AM MST
Created: Sunday, 29 Jul 2007, 9:47 AM MST

By MEGHAN BARR
Associated Press Writer

Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.

Allison Bauer left rainbows: Reds, yellows and blues, festooned across her MySpace profile in a collage of color. Before her corpse was pulled from the depths of an Oregon gorge on May 9, where police say she leapt to her death, she unwittingly wrote her own epitaph.

"I love color, Pure Color in rainbow form, And I love My friends," the 20-year-old wrote under "Interests" on her profile. "And I love to Love, I care about everyone so much you have no idea."

Now her page fills a plot on <http://www.MyDeathSpace.com>, a Web site that archives the pages of deceased MySpace members....

(more at link)

<http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3912879&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.7.1>

This site might be a bit too depressing for a lot of people here and the site loads pretty slowly, probably because it getting more traffic than normal, but if you let it load, it's shocking what you find. Lots of 15-22 year olds who died in single car traffic accidents (mostly from not wearing a seatbelt), quite a few motorcycle/ATV accidents, several homicidal boyfriends and drug O.D.s and plenty of suicides.

It's all very sad, but it the type of sad that could be a good wake up call for a that Teenager who won't listen to Mom and Dad.

<http://www.mydeathspace.com/article-list.aspx?p=1>

Btw, I just e-mailed the MySpace address of my long-time best-friend to this list, he died from a probable suicide just over a year ago.

Here's his page. He was only on MySpace for about 2 months and I can tell, from what he wrote there, that he was losing his battle with depression and was trying this as a last effort to reach out and make some new friends. We had lost touch about 6 years before he died.

<http://www.myspace.com/astroran>

[Up2Late]

1. kick n/t

:kick:

[Up2Late]

2. Btw, there are quite a few "Killed in Iraq" guys listed too...

...but the number killed in "driver error/not wearing seatbelt" deaths are by far the largest group.:kick:

[The Vinyl Ripper]

4. That's perfectly natural,

driving is by far the most dangerous activity in which the vast majority of Americans indulge.

We just don't realize it because driving is so familiar.

Oh, and hello everyone from the latest n00b..

[ljm2002]

5. Welcome to DU!

Careful, it's addictive... :-)

[annabanana]

6. Welcome to DU

I must say, you picked a gloomy thread to make your debut.. .

[The Vinyl Ripper]

7. Thanks for the welcome..

I'm in a bit of a gloomy mood..

So it seemed appropriate I guess.

Several of my daughter's friends have died in car crashes so I have a connection to the thread.

[Up2Late]

10. I guess I'm just amazed at how many there are on this list...

...I grew up in small town Indiana, which I guess was a good thing, because in my first 18 years, I think I only saw 2 traffic accidents there (including the one was a passenger in).

Plus, my parents always set a good example by always wearing their seat-belts and were strict about us wearing them too.

Plus, they didn't give us "Hot Car" with lots of Horse-power. When we needed a car to get to school and around town, we got a used 6 cylinder AMC Gremlin. I hated it at the time, but it probably saved my life.

And a Motorcycle, ATV or Jet Ski, forget it! My parents were too smart to give one of us one of those.

[AllegroRondo]

8. Auto accidents are the #1 cause of death for teens

sad but true.

[Skittles]

3. reminds me of Edward Gorey

http://wuff.me.uk/gorey/P11.html

[Up2Late]

9. Wow, that's an excellent "new to me" link! Who knew there were so many ways to go?

Is that where expressions like "...the movie is rather Gorey..." come from?:think:

[AwakeAtLast]

11. Whoa! Indeed!

Kick and Rec -

This is extreme, but effective. Thanks for the post!

[Up2Late]

12. kick n/t

:kick: