The Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die.
A girl of 13 killed herself after becoming obsessed with a fashion which links death with glamour, an inquest heard. Hannah Bond (right) hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an “Emo”.
Emo fans wear dark clothes, practise self-harm and listen to “suicide cult” rock bands.
Two weeks before her death, she started following U.S. band My Chemical Romance.
One of their songs contains the lyrics: “Although you’re dead and gone, believe me your memory will go on.”**
Hannah, described as a model pupil, had started cutting her wrists but told her father it was part of an initiation into the Emo fashion.
The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, heard Hannah had been with her boyfriend at a friend’s house on the evening of September 22 last year.
She had been angry when she was told she was not allowed to sleep over and when she got home in East Peckham she went straight to her room, saying: “I want to kill myself.”
The inquest was told Hannah had not used drugs or alcohol before her death but Vanessa Everett, her head teacher at Mascalls School, said self-harm had become commonplace among other Emo fans.
**European Americans United mourns the loss of this child. This is why we as responsible patrons of our future simply must inculcate into our progeny healthy life affirming values from a very early age. Unfortunately trends like this have been around for at least 200 years, starting with Goethe’s “The Sorrows of Young Werther”.
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“The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and it also influenced the later Romantic literary movement…..
The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe’s first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. Napoleon Bonaparte considered it one of the great works of European literature. He thought so highly of it that he wrote a soliloquy in Goethe’s style in his youth and carried Werther with him on most of his campaigns as an adult. It also started the phenomenon known as the “Werther-Fieber” (“Werther Fever”) which caused young men throughout Europe to dress in the clothing style described for Werther in the novel. It also led to some of the first known examples of copycat suicide; supposedly more than 2,000 readers committed suicide.”