Let me say something that's been on my mind since I finished the show about a week after it came out. I read an article not too long ago where someone, I believe a suicide awareness person, basically said no show, entertainment or something else, should be that graphic, it's glamorizing the death. Suicide isn't pretty. It's self-destructive, usually intentional, and there is nothing "glamorous" about experiencing and witnessing a rape or being bullied for something you didn't even do. I saw no part of this show glamorizing her death. It showed real issues, problems, extreme flaws with society, everything. They showed a graphic suicide because it's, guess what, a story of a girl's suicide. I don't believe it's being glamorized and believe it's telling a truth, a real, horrible, terrible truth. This stuff happens to people, it's not glamorizing anything. People, I think, *spoiler though I'm not sure if it really is because they mention it before it happens* need to see a bullied and traumatized girl bleeding out from self-harm in a bath tub. This show isn't trying to hide anything, it's showing you what suicide is, looks, and feels like: hopelessness, disgust, and nothingness. I can not express enough how I think people need to see what *can* happen to someone who suffers the abuse. People take it more seriously if they see a young, beautiful girl in a bathtub full of red water. Suicide should be taken seriously, if you watch this show you know what it's about from the beginning, even in the promos and in the first couple lines of the first episode. Suicide shouldn't be censored (well, mostly). It happens to real people. There's a high school not too far from where I live where 3 kids committed suicide in a semester. ONE semester. Schools don't do anything until it's too late. They just started implementing more serious changes. Suicide is a real problem that happens way too often. Also, the article mentioned "each tape essentially blaming others". OF COURSE IT'S BLAMING OTHERS. She was raped, watched a rape (though that was more or less wrong place at the wrong time but it still happened), was bullied and objectified for no reason on a regular basis (ie Bryce grabbing her butt in a convenience store, that idiot whose name is can't remember assumed she wanted sex on the Valentine's date). You don't just wake up happy one day and go, "I'm going to kill myself today." No one is pushed to suicide on their own. I'm convinced there's ALWAYS an outside push. I had a scary suicidal episode last September: I couldn't feel any pain, nothing I did to myself hurt, I felt useless, helpless, I was thinking of getting the matches my roommate had (who wasn't home at the time) for candles in the living room to burn myself beyond return. I didn't care. I wanted to die. I called my best friend, she's great with advice and being there for others, knowing I didn't trust myself. She rushed over to my house, let me cry into her, called her dad and told him I was spending the night, drove me there, made sure I was okay and checked on me constantly. Even talked with her and her parents, in particular her mom. My best friend and her mom both suffer with anxiety and panic attacks and understood how I was feeling, how it feels making the worst out of every situation in your head, putting words in people's mouths and thoughts in people's heads that didn't exist; not feeling good enough for anyone. Even in my situation, there was nothing near as bad as 13RW but it wasn't all just me. People did/said things that upset me/made me question my worthiness and how needed I was in friendships, school (sophomore in university, 19 at the time) was beyond stressful and I cried almost every week, and my parents thought everything was a phase so I kept all my thoughts and feelings to myself for 5 years. I started self-harming in April of 2012 when I was almost done with my freshman year of high school. The last time I did was a couple days before said episode, the whole cause of the problem, September of 2016. I've been "clean" since. It completely changed my life and outlook on it. I'd torn my mental state apart. It's almost never just yourself. She wouldn't have killed herself if anything in this show didn't happen. It took until her rape to really get to her and make her act, ie have Tony give her blank cassette tapes for a "project". Suicide needs to be seen by those who help impose it: bully, hurt, belittle people. Nothing in this show should've been sensored. Suicide is real, the victims of suicidal thoughts and attempts need help, and these people need to be heard. I've had suicidal thoughts, have self-harmed for years, and have gone into several depressive episodes where I felt nothing and sometimes wouldn't eat for a week or 2 at a time. With that I say: Good job, 13 Reasons Why, good job. While it can be triggering, it's something the world needed. And if you suffer from anything (mental illness, eating disorders, addiction of any kind, bullying, absolutely anything), you're not alone. I believe in you, so many others believe in you and you may not even realize it. I had a friend I'd previously rode the bus with, I was a senior in high school, who'd graduated 2 years before me who committed suicide. I hadn't talk to him but a couple times since: once at the mall, saw him once at Walmart. I cried for the entirety of my band camp for school, I found out the day before it started... 2 weeks. We only talked on the bus, hardly did when he graduated, hadn't seen him in months and I cried constantly for 2 weeks when I found out he died. I saw his last Facebook posts and didn't think much of it because so many teenage girls go "life is so hard, I can't do anything right". I felt so guilty for not saying anything. He was one of the single coolest guys I'd ever met, I wish I'd have told him that more. You don't realize until they're gone, especially at their own hand. No matter how much you think no one cares, there's always someone that cares. Your parent, sibling, friend, even someone you only talked to 20 minutes a day. There's always some one who cares. If you need anyone to talk to, I'm here. I know what it's like to feel alone, stupid, unloved. You never really are. You never truly understand the impact you may have on someone just from a few little words. Stay strong guys, stay strong. ❤