I do not understand why anyone would consider suicide "romantic". Our hospitals are full of people trying desperately to stay alive just a little bit longer. Deciding to kill yourself and attempting to do so is not about romance. It goes against the grain of our primal instinct for survival and seems like a most extreme form of pain management. I think that a person has to be in a desperate state to choose throwing themselves into the unknown (by death). The known has to be quite terrible for that kind of decision to be made and carried out. It is not a subject to be treated lightly.

Lets get back to basic human caring for all and make listening to others important again.It's not quantum physics, just common sense.

Yes, fear certainly sells papers. Fear of being labelled a racist is probably the main one.

Although our 'newest Australians', who all seem to have hyphens in their description - with the 'Australian' part second, i.e, Vietnamese-Australian, have formed our drug and crime capitals as well as have some utterly disgraceful cultural practices, to comment is...yes...racist!

It's even worse when one of their own kind comments, like a Hirsi Ali, about backward Islamic practices such as murdering daughters in honour killings (a recent one in Britain made the headlines, and there would no doubt be many Muslims here who thought it was racist to even show the story! Apparently there are 100's more in England alone!) because our leftist establishment don't know what to do.

Here's a coloured person, a woman, a minority - with an accent even, and a Muslim! Can't get any more 'downtrodden than that', it's all the minorities in one (even though in reality it is whites that are the minority on earth, but even in many parts of our capital cities) and those leftist bigots who preach cultural relativism don't know what to do.

They too, know that Muslim practices are backward, are wrong, but are too racist (yes racist, it is racist to think non-whites don't deserve to live by the standards we impose on ourselves) to care, they don't care about little Muslim girls being mutilated by misoginistic, cowardly males in white sheets.

FGM and in-breeding for starters - which Dr's at Auburn hospital, as well as others, have begged the government to educate Muslims about the results if cousins mix - children handicapped, as well as demanding action about little girls with horribly mutilated genitals and infections being brought into casualty by concerned aunts or sisters - westernised no doubt...

...People have a fear of being called racist for demanding to know why Muslims support Hilali, why they never protested to get rid of him even though he supports terrorism - 9/11 was 'God's work' comment for starters.

There ARE people in his community who want to kill me because of my skin colour, don't I have a right to know why? I don't want to be killed by Islamic bigots, and I believe ALL mosques should be bugged. This isn't fearful, this isn't racist - it is dealing with reality as opposed to hiding from it.

Yes, that is by far the biggest fear many have. What is the maddest thing about it though is that most don't even recognise it. There are such wicked populists out there who would charge me with being a fear monger - even though there are Muslims who have been CONVICTED, and dozens more on trial, for wanting to do exactly what I said - kill me because of my white skin.

Such people who try to cover that reality up are tantamount to if, in the 1920's American south, when blacks commented about the injustices there were whites who called THEM racist!

It is truly bizarre, I believe most people are so afflicted with the nonsense of cultural relativism and political correctness, they have lost the ability to be critical.

Non-western cultures DO have backward values, that is a fact. It is the reason so many of them flock to the west to live as westerners live - although sadly many bring their ways with them, dragging us backwards...

and the winner of this weeks award for pointless and nonsensical segue to their pet issue is......

Benjamin!

congratulations, you've won a meat platter, all halal of course.

On the contrary its not., Benjamin has just given us the perfect example of what happens when people believe the garbage they see and read in the media.

Also the short attention span we associate with media these days. He couldn't concentrate for long enough to address the article.

Some very interesting points raised by the article and comments. We're the proud parents of an emo kid. We keep telling him that yes, he's more sensitive than his mates, but that's because he pays more attention to what's going on around him. He's better informed.

That's bound to be depressing for him, but we think it's also more intelligent than obsessing over Paris Hilton like 'normal' kids.