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    Default Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    I just saw this on the news.

    http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/nation...udition/nf5x6/

    19-year-old kills herself after porn audition

    Family says girl was depressed

    STILLWATER, Minn. — Beautiful and young, Alyssa Funkewent to Las Vegas and “auditioned” for a porn movie via a website.

    After the video went public, the former straight-A student's old classmates in Stillwater, Minnesota, began sending her messages.

    Some were surprised, some negative, and others supportive. She answered a few with social media posts ofher own, including “Pornstar status” and “FAMOUS for dayzzzzz.”

    However, it all took a toll, and the young woman bought a shotgun and drove to her family’s boat, where she killed herself.

    KMSP-TV reports Funke’s family confirmed she had a history of depression. Her father is in prison, and her mother has been charged withdealing drugs. They say Alyssa also had struggles with money.

    Funke's family blame her death, in part, on online bullying. But the sheriff’s office said the messages she was sent did not amount to criminal harassment.

    Alyssa’s family said they are talking about her death now because they want to keep other girls from making the same mistake. They want young women to understand the pressure that comesfrom social media and the stigma porn carries.

    They also said they would like to bring attention to bullying and the effect it can have on somebody.

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    Online bullying doesn't have to lead to criminal harassment to be damaging. Disgusting. Poor girl. Such a shame that kids keep getting driven to suicide as the only way to escape.

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    Sad that this is being spun as "suicide after doing porn" rather than "suicide after experiencing bullying" by some news outlets.


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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    Quote Originally Posted by kaninchen View Post
    Sad that this is being spun as "suicide after doing porn" rather than "suicide after experiencing bullying" by some news outlets.
    Yes, good point.
    I read a recent (Dec.'13) Cosmo article about a FL teen jumping off a bldg. after being bullied..very very sad.


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    Quote Originally Posted by kaninchen View Post
    Sad that this is being spun as "suicide after doing porn" rather than "suicide after experiencing bullying" by some news outlets.

    The bullying happened because she did porn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breedancer View Post
    The bullying happened because she did porn.
    But so what? She killed herself over being bullied, not because she did porn. The lame excuse that people used to harass her and drive her to suicide is meaningless.

    It's like if someone posted a video of her peeing her pants on the Internet and then she was bullied for it and committed suicide. Would it be appropriate to say "Girl kills herself after peeing pants"?

    No, it would be "Girl kills herself after being harassed", just like it should be in this instance.

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    Those who bullied her are scum and they should be bullied and see how they like it. One thing I am confused about though, was she even paid for her "audition?" Lots of corrupt porn producers pull auditions then don't pay. Not that it takes away from this sad story, just a random thought.

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    I think it's silly to blame porn OR bullying when the girl was regularly depressed already. Neither porn nor bullying had as much to do with her suicide as that.
    "Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: 'A horrible person.' We weren't even testing for that."

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    She may have been depressed, but unless she had been suicidal before the bullying, it's quite possible the bullying was the straw that broke the camel's back and as such would have been quite influential in killing herself. You cannot ignore the bullying as a large contribution toward her suicide. Before it, she may have been coping with her depression well enough to function and want to live up until that point.

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    I'm not sure her death had a lot to do with shooting the porno or the attention she received afterwards. Maybe the straw that broke the camels back? Seems she was a troubled person even before.

    I'd agree though, there is a stigma associated with adult entertainment that needs to be dealt with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RaeRae View Post
    She may have been depressed, but unless she had been suicidal before the bullying, it's quite possible the bullying was the straw that broke the camel's back and as such would have been quite influential in killing herself. You cannot ignore the bullying as a large contribution toward her suicide. Before it, she may have been coping with her depression well enough to function and want to live up until that point.
    Or maybe the straw that broke the camels back was being so broke she had to resort to porn, either way the problem was that the camel had a bad back to begin with.
    "Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: 'A horrible person.' We weren't even testing for that."

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    " she had a history of depression. Her father is in prison, and her mother has been charged with dealing drugs. They say Alyssa also had struggles with money.
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    Sounds like a genetic predisposition to dysfunctional behavior.

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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    Grrr..for some reason I feel that this would have happened anyway. Sounds like she had a lot of family problems. It says she received negative feedback and supportive feed back. I'm sure the supportive feedback doesn't make it all better but it def helps.

    The media adding porn to it is just going to cause a huge negative image on top of all the other negative images porn has.

    When I was 18 I got into adult films and did them off and on for a few years. I was never famous but was out there to be seen. I got a lot of hate from some people but I already knew that was going to happen. I knew I'd get called a whore, slut whatever else names come with that. But I still chose to do it because I wanted to give it a shot and wasn't worried about it. Granted when I did films it was before myspace or facebook. Chat rooms and instant messengers were around but that's hardly the same.

    She might have thought porn would change her life for the better and when it didn't she finally gave up..

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    So many problems we face as a society; suicides, mass shootings, homelessness, drug/alcohol abuse, and so on, are because of an ineffective mental health care system and an increasingly callous and compassion-less society that would rather find someone or something to vilify rather than respond with empathy to those that need it the most.
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    Default Re: Beautiful 19-year-old girl kills herself after doing porn

    Sad. She needed a much better support system. Wish I could have helped somehow. (No connection)
    I loved going to strip clubs; I actually made some friends there. Now things are different for the clubs and for me. As a result I am not as happy.

    Customers are not entitled to grope, disrespect, or rob strippers. This is their job, not their hobby, and they all need income. Clubs are not just some erotic show for guys to view while drinking.

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