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I often believe this is the case, but it is them what do it that seem silly.

Well put. All those are factors to be considered. On the other side of the World, those perspectives have driven home like a juggernaut without brakes. In Japanese culture, Hari-Kari was stange to ours, and so was kamikazi. This event seems a little harder to fathom though. The gravity of war is...

Well you understood at least, not sure how I can "phrase it" so every nsc'er can though. Most on here would perhaps feel duped, slightly silly maybe, in such a predicament. It's really sad for the girl that it led to such an irreversible dramatic act - but leaving grieving family behind like...

Not considering the whole issue has been about irresponsibility then!

You struggle with understanding text. The p/c issue presides over questioning the deceased for the responsibility or lack thereof in her act of suicide. Nibble has unwittingly illustrated how it's not supposed to be questioned, in his (or her) shocked reply above.

Duh. It's not that situation that has anything to do with political correctness, it's the unwillingness to question the act of the now dead person. You really are not SUPPOSED to reflect HER action in a bad light, are you.

In this politically correct situation we are shy to speak or think ill of the dead - but I put it to NSC; Which act was the more irresponsible - the prank call for laughs on radio, or a parent of 2 with a caring family and husband leaving them with that finality? Suicide is generally a selfish...

Overthinking. His flippant response was more probably the weight in which he regarded the whole affair, not like he's never heard of such japes I would imagine. He wasn't too bothered and wasn't party to the controversy at home or abroad. He's human after all, and not one for p/c living.

I have to agree with this, but without excusing them; there is a marked decline in respect from the media, that spreads through the public. On any given day there are people in disregard of consequences for others 'so long as there's something in it for me'. Our Western culture lauds the bad...