Mum believes son ‘into every challenge possible’ died in online dare gone wrong

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1. I think this is fine in cases where there is a suspicious element to the death, but also I would like the reverse to happen and have the parents social media disclosed to social services/police

2. How about parents stop buying their children smart phones?

3. Whenever there’s a story about a kid dying due to an ‘challenge’, evidence of said challenge never materialises. There’s never videos found of others doing the alleged challenge, or other incidents of it going wrong.

   I think that, sadly, many parents are unable, or unwilling, to recognise when their child is dealing with mental health issues. Banning social media or smart phones won’t do anything to combat that; parents need to be more attentive to their children.

4. Stupid boot didn’t look after her kid so everyone else’s privacy is at risk.

5. ‘Online challenge’ is media code for killed himself on purpose.

   Funny how this article comes out every 6 weeks about a different kid yet I’ve never heard or seen what challenge they’re on about…

   It’s immoral that so many media outlets let parents go down the rabbit hole like this with their denial and copium

6. *Bet you can’t die and then come back to tell us about it*

7. This is what happens when you let your kid get raised by an iPad whilst you and a bottle of white wine get better acquainted with netflix.

   I don’t remember the teletubbies or freakin pingu telling me to drink tide pods.

8. >Ellen’s petition demands that parents have the right to access their children’s social media “both when the child is alive and if they are deceased”.

   Eff off.

9. Social interactions should be in person until 16-18. Social media causes far too much harm then good. If kids want phones it’s fine, but bullying could be bad in school before social media. Let them watch shit videos without social constraints

10. Blaming a kid’s suicide on a tiktok challenge feels like it’s become the new “death by misadventure”, where *”they weren’t really trying to kill themselves, they were just experimenting””* excuse that we used to see.

    I don’t think the parent saying “they weren’t trying to kill themselves, there were no signs they were depressed” is ever a good insight as half the time there is a suicide people respond with the phrase “it was the last person you’d expect”.

    I don’t think social media at the moment is good for the younger generation, but I think stories like these are just scapegoating it.

11. Read the article and there’s no proof at all these kids died from “online challenges”, it’s just what the parents “think” might have happened

12. Unfortunately, it seems from the impartial evidence that poor child committed suicide. There was quite a lot of scandal around his mother’s past and present attention seeking.

13. Educate your kids, spend time with them, listen to them, be honest with them.

14. how was he found? nothing in the article explains WHAT the manner of death was so that we can even look into these “challenges”

15. Whatever makes her feel better for driving her son to suicide