I’m going to use Anna’s words here to mirror the sentiment regarding your second sentence about intent and secondaries people, as it is appropriate at highlighting the relativity of the opposing views on this topic:

The NKVD in the USSR was actually the first to use gas vans for mass murder.

Can we please also try not to forget that concentration camps (unlike death camps) have a longer history and were one of the many brilliant inventions of the British Empire? Used first against the native people of Africa? I’d like to be able to say publicly what is an objective historical fact without being branded a…

That’s kind.

Team Pressscretary. I’ve heard the term used to describe other historic events. If we were in a normal time this wouldn’t be newsworthy. Unfortunately we are living 2017.

Well the first instance of concentration camps being used in fairly modern history was in the US when Native Americans were rounded up and put into concentration camps (reservations) as a method of extermination and control. Concentration camps were also used during the civil war and were used by the British during…

I actually agree with this point. Having lost family members to the Holocaust—of one branch of the extended family, only two individuals survived the camps—I know that there is no rational conversation on this topic. The horror and the grief and the rage are so immense (and should be) that it seems obscene to impose…

I was about to be the nicest I’ve ever been to a pope and almost wrote this off as an unfortunate translation issue (concentration as in “a group of something packed together”) that occurred somewhere down the line but nope, apparently he meant it as intended. Ugh. Just stop with Holocaust comparisons, everyone.

What should we call Gaza?

Haha and surely someone with that name couldn’t be racist. Well I never!

Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III couldn’t possibly be racist, he’s just a huge World Surf League fan, as Hawaii is considered it’s own sovereign surfing nation. If there’s one thing we know about Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, it’s that he’s got surfing on the mind all the time - not the racism.

How has Jez made it through the day without acknowledging this happened yesterday?

Is it possible that someone who takes their own life romanticizes about this very thing? To see the grief from family and friends? Someone who possibly wants to see what it would be like if they had the same feelings as this girl in the show?

I also don’t think it was terribly romanticized. The shuddering and the heavy breathing. Ugh. But the reaction of the parents...man.

seconded. It also became a lot about the cutting and then peace. Not good., they did a good job with her parents finding her though

Making the suicide grittier or more grotesque wouldn’t fix it. Portraying the suicide specifically as just an act of someone who is depressed, alone, and desperate would be better.

Not when you see her parents trying to drag her dead body out of the water it isn’t.

This is precisely how I felt. I watched just the clip on YouTube so I could actually weigh in and other than crying and a bit of panic it still looks like it hurt for a few seconds and then was peaceful. Lots of shots of her calm, beautiful face with flawless eyebrows. It’s a bit graphic, but not enough to move away…

Hot Take: They should have picked a uglier way to commit suicide. Blood in the water is romantic imagery