Interesting but terrible coincidence ( not that I believe in them) is that yesterday another tragic event was aired on TV...and played out on the internet.
In case anyone is interested...the reason I'm interested in this stuff.....is that I've received private messages from people who are talking about suicide - their own...and I'm wondering what I can do in this situation. ??
- Police investigating mysterious RIP message to hanged girls
- Message apparently posted before girls went missing
- Girls suspected to have died in suicide pact
POLICE are looking into a mysterious "RIP" message that apparently appeared on the shared website of two teenagers before they went missing and were subsequently found hanged in bushland.
A MySpace page for the band "bitchy", which 16-year-olds Stephanie Gestier and Jodie Gater were both members of, says "RIP Jodie & Steph".
Stephanie and Jodie disappeared on April 15 and their bodies weren't found until yesterday.
According to the website records no one has logged into the MySpace bitchy page to make changes since April 14.
A spokeswoman for Victoria Police told NEWS.com.au that the officer filing the report for the coroner will be looking at the site.
General manager for Myspace Australia Rebekah Horne told NEWS.com.au that the text, which was outside of the comments area, could not have been placed on the page without one of the page owners logging in.
The girl's bodies were yesterday found hanging from a tree in the Dandenong Ranges National Park after an apparent suicide pact.
On the band's MySpace page, the four female members describe their music as "Experimental / Happy Hardcore / Rap" and list Jodie's and Stephanie's roles as singing, lyrics and "hitting".
"We love to scream and it's what we do best," the page said.
"We talk in funny voices when we're happy... pretending to sing is one of our fave things to do."
On April 3, a visitor to the girl's page wrote that although he enjoyed their music, but added "u girls have a seriouse problems, but oh well i still like ya's" (sic).
From last December to February, on one of her websites, Jodie posted three odes to suicide, the second one titled Suicide in the Night.
It reads: "It's over for me, I can't take it! I hear it over and over again, It feels like it always rains."
Another of Jodie's MySpace websites reads: "Let Steph n me b free."
Meanwhile, Stephanie also posted a series of photos on a website on March 28 and 29, just over three weeks before she was found dead.
Her website profile said: "i dont wanna know how many friends you have cuz i dont have any anymore (sic)."
Stephanie's grieving mother is also believed to have used the internet early today to post a letter of farewell to her daughter.
The author of the note, identified by Southern Cross Broadcasting as Stephanie's mother Juli, a transit police officer, says her daughter, her only child, "was found with her friend hanging from a tree".
"Stephanie, why didn't you tell me you were so upset? Why didn't you just come home?" the note asked.
"You had only just turned 16. You were always such a quiet girl who spent time listening to music and surfing the internet.
"There is nothing that couldn't have been sorted out. You were my only child and can never be replaced. Bye bye, my little girl."
The teenagers also appear in footage on a YouTube website, dancing with two other girls in what appears to be a school hall.
The girls were in a four-member, all-girl band called Bitchy.
Upwey High School principal Greg Holman said today the school community was "devastated" by the girls' deaths and that counsellors were working with students and staff.
Adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Greg said a joint suicide pact between girls was rare.
"It's very, very unusual to have girls kill themselves and particularly kill themselves in this way," he said.
Meanwhile he warned friends of the girls should be monitored.
"Yes, this puts all their friends at huge risk," he told Southern Cross Broadcasting.
"We know that having someone close to you commit suicide is a risk factor in and of itself... I'm sure there's people working out there with the young people to make sure they understand that suicide is not a solution."
Tribute messages started arriving on Jodie's personal MySpace page yesterday.
One of the contributors, LaLa left this message for Jodie: "Heya hun, LOVE YOU ALWAYS, FOREVER MISSED."
On another website that Stephanie had created, she said: "I wish i was 10 again eating toothpaste & blue playdough".
"Believe in me because i dont believe in anything," she said on her page on vampirefreaks.com.
She also listed candy, showers, glitter and rainbows as her "likes".
Police will prepare a report for the coroner.
Available counselling
Counselling for troubled young people is available on the following numbers:
*Lifeline - 131 114 (cost of a local call)
*Kids Help Line - 1800 55 1800 (free call)
*Suicide Prevention Crisis Line - (02) 9331 2000.)
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I'm happy to have your input thou'..yes it leaves the family to cope with the death. Sad...