From: queer54@hotmail.com   
      
   While I've never watched this show, it might be hard to judge it on what was   
   written in this article.  Saying that, the teen years are difficult enough.  I   
   remember those years weren't years I remember fondly. High school was a   
   nightmare!  It didn't help    
   that I was Gay, as were several of my friends.  It was at a time (the late   
   60's and early 70's) when the Canadian Government had just de-criminalized   
   Homosexuality.  Still, bullying was the norm! When I was in high school I had   
   three very close, intimate,   
    and yes, Gay, friends hang themselves, all three finally succeeding after   
   multiple attempts.  Two of the boys had tried to hang themselves three times   
   before they finally died.  Me?  I tried to hang myself twice, once at the end   
   of grade 10, following    
   the suicide of my closest boyfriend, and a second time a year later.  I   
   attempted suicide again just after high school, shortly after a fourth friend   
   hanged himself.    
      
   Even though I'm somewhat pro-suicide (I'd be a hypocrite if I was   
   anti-suicide), having survived multiple suicide attempts in my life, I don't   
   think any show should glorify suicide, especially one directed at a teen   
   audience. If this is the case about    
   this show, that it can be proven to be encouraging teenagers to take their own   
   lives, then it should be taken off the air.      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)