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NEWS: American Anime Fan Disappears in Japan

KabaKabaFruit wrote:

Young98 wrote: attractive? have you seen the picture? Teriyaki Terrier wrote: On a much less seriousness note, I do agree with you on her looks. Maybe you guys ought to also consider the possibility that her unattractiveness may be another factor into possible suicide. I've heard stories of people that killed themselves because they weren't "good looking" enough for the opposite sex. This isn't something to joke around with.

I tell ya one thing, if I were her and if I just happened to fire up my laptop and read your post, it sure wouldn't help my self esteem much. The fact that you're not joking would make the comment sting even worse.

I can't believe how some of you guys are giving commentary on her attractiveness over a situation like this. Some of you are describing her like she's hideous, and her picture isn't at all that bad.

I sure hope her family doesn't read these posts. Cripes, people, have a heart.

It's sad that people often ignore or just don't notice that a person's getting this depressed. Sometimes a little kindness can save a life.

...it seems to me like her family at least cares about her enough, so then why didn't she just try to open up to them? I mean, how is someone supposed to reach out to her if they don't even know what's going on? And really, how can anyone know what's going on with her unless she opens up about it more?

Skye's sister, Megan Budnick, who appeared at the press conference with her mother in Japan, posted a blog about her sister's disappearance at 4:30 p.m. on April 4 to a profile on MTV Think, an online community tied to the music television network. In the post, Megan, described her sister as someone who "loves everything" about the Asian country but has been coping with depression.

"She never told any friends or family about this trip, but she has been very depressed, and has always said that she wanted to leave to go to Japan and just kill herself there," Megan wrote in the post.

The itinerary discovered by Budnick's family described a passage from the United States through Tokyo to Hokkaido. "She doesn't have a cell phone, she didn't pack any belongings," Megan wrote, adding that the only item missing was her sister's laptop. The missing woman's family also found a suicide note saved in draft form in her e-mail account that was prepared for a friend, according to Megan Budnick. A missing person's report has been filed with Japanese authorities, but because Skye Budnick is an adult, there is little that can be done by authorities, according to her sister.

xstylus wrote:

KabaKabaFruit wrote: Young98 wrote: attractive? have you seen the picture? Teriyaki Terrier wrote: On a much less seriousness note, I do agree with you on her looks. Maybe you guys ought to also consider the possibility that her unattractiveness may be another factor into possible suicide. I've heard stories of people that killed themselves because they weren't "good looking" enough for the opposite sex. This isn't something to joke around with. I tell ya one thing, if I were her and if I just happened to fire up my laptop and read your post, it sure wouldn't help my self esteem much. The fact that you're not joking would make the comment sting even worse. I can't believe how some of you guys are giving commentary on her attractiveness over a situation like this. Some of you are describing her like she's hideous, and her picture isn't at all that bad. I sure hope her family doesn't read these posts. Cripes, people, have a heart.

dude, calm down, ok sure, maybe it was in somewhat bad taste, but this type of action that a full grown adult did, not some 10 yr old that ran away, this is grown-up, and her reasoning to get away from her problems or wtvr, was to go to japan without telling her family and now her family is suffering because of her, that's one of the reasons i don't pity her, and people that make stupid decisions like that are putting them selves up for ridicule
plus, unless someone knows the person being affected, i really don't get why one would try so hard to defend that person, or feel sorry, if they feel sorry for an incident like this, they should be sorry for every incident, in fact, in the time it took for someone to read this post, thousands of lives have just been lost, and i bet that someone isn't going to go cry over them, so why is this story any different?

How did she even get a ticket like that in the first place? Aren't they well within the thousands?

KabaKabaFruit wrote:

Young98 wrote: attractive? have you seen the picture? Teriyaki Terrier wrote: On a much less seriousness note, I do agree with you on her looks. Maybe you guys ought to also consider the possibility that her unattractiveness may be another factor into possible suicide. I've heard stories of people that killed themselves because they weren't "good looking" enough for the opposite sex. This isn't something to joke around with.

I tell ya one thing, if I were her and if I just happened to fire up my laptop and read your post, it sure wouldn't help my self esteem much. The fact that you're not joking would make the comment sting even worse.

I can't believe how some of you guys are giving commentary on her attractiveness over a situation like this. Some of you are describing her like she's hideous, and her picture isn't at all that bad.

I sure hope her family doesn't read these posts. Cripes, people, have a heart.

How did she even get a ticket like that in the first place? Aren't they well within the thousands?

it must have crushed her, a hardcore anime fan who went to study japanese language and culture because of anime, to be failing at japanese language and culture.

Lesson learned: don't let anime be your life. let it be your hobby.

What makes you say she didn't open up to her family?

If this person was a non-anime fan and you heard about this just by glancing across another town's newspaper on page two, would you still care?

There's no way you can answer yes, because you wouldn't.

I'm sorry you're too myopic to understand that people die every day. Suicide is a bad thing, and if I'm a jerk for saying, quote, "It sucks that she didn't seek the help she needed, nor was she involuntarily committed since she might have been in a mental mindset as to not be able to be responsible for her own choices," then call me a jerk who thinks that ANY PERSON WHO IS SUICIDAL NEEDS SOME KIND OF HELP BEFORE THEY HURT THEMSELVES. But anyone who's saying that this is a huge tragedy, that they're praying for the family, etc. should read about every person that commits suicide in a day.

If you care, volunteer at a helpline, donate your money to suicide prevention organizations, or reach out to someone who's withdrawn. If you care about the issue, take some responsibility and do something about it. Otherwise, you're just like me: making light of suffering because there's nothing anyone can do about it.

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