@29 tinyviolin: Inner peace or balance is a journey. It takes time to develop, and through meditation on stillness and peace, you may find one day, your third eye will open, and you kind of understand your own heart better, and be able to be more loving, less critical, and more compassionate towards other beings.

As the saying goes, there will be no world peace, unless there is an inner peace within the living beings.

If you want to learn more about inner peace, check this link:

http://www.inner-peace.org.uk/index.html

RIp

What DAMMMMMMMMMM i wasnt expecting that at all....wow

R.I.P

It's the messed up modeling industry. Young models are hunted down by these model fckers. Sexual abuse and drug use leads to drepression. She was probably homesick and overworked too.

Apparently she hanged herself -- which is a pretty serious suicide attempt (obviously). Usually people who are serious about succeeding go with hanging (David Foster Wallace, etc.). This tells me that she had been planning this for a while. Maybe she was clinically depressed?

It's interesting how much coverage this is getting in the western press -- like huffpo and jezebel.

@44 Jessica,
Those are some really disturbing results about Asian American women. I am not surprised considering the way Asian Americans have historically been treated in the U.S. -- marginalized, charicaturized, and the women, highly sexualized.

I read somewhere recently a drive within the mental health community to train psychologists to better understand Asian/immigrant/hyphenated experiences because not only is mental health somewhat taboo in Asian American communities, there is also no real help out there. Most western psychiatry is devoted to a) meds and pharm and b) to getting people to individuate -- which runs contrary to the communal aspects of Asian family structures.

Regardless, a sad incident.

This is really sad. I have conflicting emotions on suicide,but never the less this is so sad.
Tina,I like what you wrote, I agree its so important to find those things that bring you joy. I know what its like to contemplate taking one's own life, because there are things in life that can bring you to your knees.....
spiritually,emotionally,physically, financially, and when you add what are people saying or going to say it can get you really turned around. Who knows what was going on in this young girls mind.

Jessica...I found the stats interesting...in that I've seen them applied to other ethnic groups also. Nom_Kitteh...also interesting that seeing a mental health provider is "not the thing to do" I had just read that applied to the Asian community. I remember I had just watched Attic Cat and thought wow what a good actress and when I went to find more of her work I found she had committed suicide...and that led to others...and I thought they all say the same thing...deeply troubled,seriously depressed...and I thought these ladies are wonderful actresses! my next thought was wow..women all over have so much to deal with culturally,etc etc.....but there's no help at all?

Either way ..it's sad that such a young life has ended this way.

Ladies you are beautiful as you are...you do count,measure up and have great worth...you must know this for yourself...and stuff does pass...

depression doesn´t show on the outside... and killing yourself, wanting to dissapear and leave all behind, these thoughts are soo easy to come across when you´re feeling down and alone. I bet that soo many of us here have had, at least once thought about "if I wasn´t born, things would be much better" or "I really wanna die, this is too hard for me to come across".. at least for me it has, several times, I´ve felt that dying would solve everything and I felt unwanted and that it´s too difficult to continuing with the life struggle... Because seriously 75 percent of life is struggles, from my perspective... depending on how you wanna choose to see things.. but the percentage of struggle is much more compared to the nice and comfortable part of life. But actually carrying on with the thoughts in your head, doing what you really at that moment think is the best.. is the last step, and it can be very easy as well I guess.. since soo many have already committed suicide..

I deeply hope that it´s not a man involved in this, like the supertragical story for the actress in BOF who killed herself.. I´m soo sick and tired of hearing all these men misusing their authority they were born with, which obviously mean the physical power. No matter how you see it, there´s a wasteful and sadly too big amount of men that´re downright ASSHOLES that deserve to have their penises cut off! literally.. not all men, but too many men are in this cathegory, and I´m sure, the real gentlemen feel a shame over this group!

To #57 Bella : Please do not ever think that life is not worth living. I am 42 years old - I am a man. I am also a Police Officer who has been injured twice in the line of duty within three months. I was 1st injured on 12/25/2007 when I should have died after my patrol car was totalled - I was injured again just two months later when I tackled a man who supposedly had a gun who was going into his girlfriends place of business to shoot and kill her. He did not have a gun and I broke my shoulder socket as I tackled him. I have constant migraine headaches, dizziness, nauseau. I've had 3 major surgeries I have a traumatic brain injury a fused lower back 3 vertebrae messed up in my neck and I'm still not completely well after almost 2 years. I have a lot of pain almost every day - but I carry on - I still go to work when I'm able -which is most days. My point is I have been very depressed because of my lack of ability to perform my normal duty - but I won't kill myself because I - just like you and everyone else - am here for a reason that is so much bigger than just ourselves. We must find our destiny and try to fulfill it. I think I have found mine and am trying to get healed to get back to it. You may still be young and looking. Hang in there! Life is such a wonderful gift - share it with people that love you back. There are indeed lonely times - I did not find my one and only until I turned 40 and then we married. There will be tough times and sometimes it will seem that they outweigh the easy and or fun times but, there is always something good around the corner. There is an old saying " God never closes one door without opening another one " . I don't know what religion you belong to but whoever you may call God most assuredly loves you - don't you think? Pray to him/her and ask for guidance in your life. You are right - not all men are evil. There are definitely evil PEOPLE in the world. That was the reason I made the statement about checking out the crime scenes and utilizing all of the forsensic science available to Police where all these beautiful people died. It doesn't make sense that they would fight so hard to give up so easily.