Music has been blamed for the suicide of a teenager, specifically, in this case, emo. An inquest in Maidstone, Kent heard on Wednesday that 13 year old Hannah Bond, who hanged herself earlier this year, was a huge emo fan, and particularly of My Chemical Romance, with whom she was "obsessed".
The girl's father, Ray Bond told the inquest that his daughter had self-harmed prior to her suicide, which she said was part of an "emo initiation ceremony". Her mother Heather added: "There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves. She called emo a fashion and I thought it was normal. Hannah was a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager".
Giving a verdict of suicide, coroner Roger Sykes nonetheless criticised "emo", saying: "The emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing".