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זה חשוב! תקראו.....מדובר על נערה שהתאבדה בגלל שיר של gc ו-blink182 Jessie Kasper was just 17 years old when after listening to her favorite band's 'suicide song', she took her own life. Like many other teenagers, 17-year old Jessie Kasper loved listening to music and lived for the next rock band touring her home city of Brisbane. It's this very same music her distraught parents Steve and Diane now blame for the loss of their only daughter. Some time during the night of April 26 this year, Jessie quietly closed her bedroom door and hanged herself from her four-poster bed.'I suppose like many parents, we weren't aware of the lyrics of the songs our daughter was listening to,' Steve,48, says quietly. 'It was only afterwards when we read Jessie's suicide note that we listened, and realized her favorite songs glorified taking your own life. 'She even requested that the two of these songs -- Good Charlotte's The Day That I Die and Blink 182's Adam's Song [written for a boy who took his own life] -- be played at her funeral,' he says, shaking his head. The horrifying and tragic scene in the Kasper household on the morning of April 27 is one that does not fit the picture of the happy teenager who had, only days before, been looking forward to her school formal. 'On the Saturday night we had friends around for a barbecue and everything seemed normal,' Diane, 42 says.'Jessie was there and she was happy and laughing, so there was no clue or inkling of what she was planning.'Steve recalls how Jessie had revealed her plans to travel. 'Jessie had planned for her and a few friends to go backpacking after they finished Year 12,' he says. 'I've got three sons, but only had one daughter and now she's gone forever. I'm not a father bent on revenge, but I do feel very strongly about these bands who write lyrics glorifying suicide being a little bit more accountable for what they put out there for our kids.'While I'm not blaming one particular artist, there are some kids out there saying: " Right, this is what I got to do. It's a way out becuse my favorite band sings about it." 'It isn't a way out at all. Jessie was only 17--- she hadn't even lived yet.' All the posters of Jessie's favorite bands that adorned her room are no longer there, and her four-poster bed was given to the Salvation Army.'I had to get that bed out of here. She'd probably be mad at me, but I couldn't stand to look at it,' Steve says. 'We moved into this house in November and Jessie had always wanted a four-poster bed, so we got her one. She was my princess.' Diane is also struggling to make sense of her daughter's suicide.'At the place where we had Jessie's funeral, there were three other funerals related to teenage suicides. And we've learnt another teenager who committed suicide requested Adam's Song as well,' Diane says. Steve adds: 'I believe the music and the lyrics had a lot to do with Jessie deciding to take her own life. 'Apparently, Jessie talked about taking her own life to some of her friends , but thye didn't tell us out of "loyalty". If they would of said something to us, Jessie could of got some counselling. It's not a matter of loyalty, it's a matter of life or death.' Steve says that all parents need to be aware of what their teenagers are lsitening to. 'Listen to some of the music your kids are listening to,' he says. 'I hope no other parent has to go through what we are. It's a living hell.' So what do experts say? Psychologist Heather Bray from Sydney's South Pacific Private Hospital says while rock groups have a certain level of ethical responsibility ultimately it's up to parents to monitor the music and discuss it with their children in a non-judgemental way. 'What our children are listening to is a reflection of the way they feel, and that's why we need to be interested in what they are tuning in to,' she says. So should these songs be banned? According to Heather, it would make no difference, as teens would find other ways to listen to them. 'It's interesting to note that while the songwriters may be singing about suicide, the singers themselves are still very much alive,' she says.
זה חשוב! תקראו.....מדובר על נערה שהתאבדה בגלל שיר של gc ו-blink182 Jessie Kasper was just 17 years old when after listening to her favorite band's 'suicide song', she took her own life. Like many other teenagers, 17-year old Jessie Kasper loved listening to music and lived for the next rock band touring her home city of Brisbane. It's this very same music her distraught parents Steve and Diane now blame for the loss of their only daughter. Some time during the night of April 26 this year, Jessie quietly closed her bedroom door and hanged herself from her four-poster bed.'I suppose like many parents, we weren't aware of the lyrics of the songs our daughter was listening to,' Steve,48, says quietly. 'It was only afterwards when we read Jessie's suicide note that we listened, and realized her favorite songs glorified taking your own life. 'She even requested that the two of these songs -- Good Charlotte's The Day That I Die and Blink 182's Adam's Song [written for a boy who took his own life] -- be played at her funeral,' he says, shaking his head. The horrifying and tragic scene in the Kasper household on the morning of April 27 is one that does not fit the picture of the happy teenager who had, only days before, been looking forward to her school formal. 'On the Saturday night we had friends around for a barbecue and everything seemed normal,' Diane, 42 says.'Jessie was there and she was happy and laughing, so there was no clue or inkling of what she was planning.'Steve recalls how Jessie had revealed her plans to travel. 'Jessie had planned for her and a few friends to go backpacking after they finished Year 12,' he says. 'I've got three sons, but only had one daughter and now she's gone forever. I'm not a father bent on revenge, but I do feel very strongly about these bands who write lyrics glorifying suicide being a little bit more accountable for what they put out there for our kids.'While I'm not blaming one particular artist, there are some kids out there saying: " Right, this is what I got to do. It's a way out becuse my favorite band sings about it." 'It isn't a way out at all. Jessie was only 17--- she hadn't even lived yet.' All the posters of Jessie's favorite bands that adorned her room are no longer there, and her four-poster bed was given to the Salvation Army.'I had to get that bed out of here. She'd probably be mad at me, but I couldn't stand to look at it,' Steve says. 'We moved into this house in November and Jessie had always wanted a four-poster bed, so we got her one. She was my princess.' Diane is also struggling to make sense of her daughter's suicide.'At the place where we had Jessie's funeral, there were three other funerals related to teenage suicides. And we've learnt another teenager who committed suicide requested Adam's Song as well,' Diane says. Steve adds: 'I believe the music and the lyrics had a lot to do with Jessie deciding to take her own life. 'Apparently, Jessie talked about taking her own life to some of her friends , but thye didn't tell us out of "loyalty". If they would of said something to us, Jessie could of got some counselling. It's not a matter of loyalty, it's a matter of life or death.' Steve says that all parents need to be aware of what their teenagers are lsitening to. 'Listen to some of the music your kids are listening to,' he says. 'I hope no other parent has to go through what we are. It's a living hell.' So what do experts say? Psychologist Heather Bray from Sydney's South Pacific Private Hospital says while rock groups have a certain level of ethical responsibility ultimately it's up to parents to monitor the music and discuss it with their children in a non-judgemental way. 'What our children are listening to is a reflection of the way they feel, and that's why we need to be interested in what they are tuning in to,' she says. So should these songs be banned? According to Heather, it would make no difference, as teens would find other ways to listen to them. 'It's interesting to note that while the songwriters may be singing about suicide, the singers themselves are still very much alive,' she says.
. אני אוהבת תלהקה את המוזיקה שהיא עושה, את הסגנון אבל לקחת את הטקסטים ברצינות?!
