“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.

Coroner Roger Sykes said yesterday that Hannah’s death was “not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of a young life”.

Hannah’s mother Heather told the inquest she had researched the trend since her daughter’s death.

“There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves,” she said.

“She called Emo a fashion and I thought it was normal.”

She added: “Hannah was a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager.”

Hannah’s father Ray, a karate teacher, said: “Two weeks before, I saw the cuts. I asked her about them and she said it was an Emo initiation.

“She promised me she would never do it again.”

Hannah gave her name as Living Disaster on her page on social networking website Bebo.

The page is decorated with a picture of an Emo girl with bloody wrists after slashing herself.

Another picture shows a child’s exercise book scrawled with the words: “Dear Diary, today I give up. . .”

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.

Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: “The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing.”

•The Emo phenomenon began in the U.S. in the 1980s. It is a largely teenage trend and is characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide.

Followers wear tight jeans with studded belts and wristbands. Their hair is dyed black and worn in long fringes to obscure their faces.

Emo - from the word emotional - is a reference to the angst-filled lyrics and melancholy themes of the rock music central to the culture.

One of the foremost of these “suicide cult” bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey.

Their first single, Welcome to the Black Parade, from the album The Black Parade, was released in 2006 and became a huge hit, going to number one in Britain.

The Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die.”

The concept album follows the story of a character called The Patient, who dies of cancer.

source: The Daily Mail

okay. i need a couple of seconds to get myself together.

NOW. i gathered enough patience tolerating people labeling My Chemical Romance as an emo band.

EMO, my friends, is a stereotype that’s related to slitting your wrists, cutting yourself, suicide and what not. it is fucking about hurting yourself. and that’s fashion in the emo world.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE SAVES LIVES. well, they don’t. but they’re songs are NOT about killing yourselves. ohmygod i cannot fucking understand why people don’t get this. i was going through their lyrics and their songs are about getting up, not giving a fuck about posers who put you down, and building up a new life.

that’s the fucking point of this band. i guess most people don’t know this but Gerard struggled with alcohol and drug abuse years ago. this band gave him back his life. he had a purpose, he wanted to live, and he wanted other kids to know that they deserve every fucking chance to live in this world as any other people.

SINCE WHEN IS MCR ABOUT KILLING YOURSELF????!!!

ohmygod.

i’m so mad. i’m actually shaking as i type this.

AND. their latest album The Black Parade is not about dying for god’s sake. JEEEEEZ. its a friggin concept album about a cancer patient who dies. its not about making kids get infected with cancer and dying if thats what you’re thinking. The Black Parade is about DEATH. it is not about DYING. do you see the difference? seriously.

i know my points aren’t that strong to go against this fucked up article. but seriously, stop it with the emo labeling thing already. i’ve seen countless interviews where the band denied being labeled as emo.

if they claim not to be emo, who the fuck are you to say they are emo?

i say, this kid has problems of her own and has no one to turn to. i wouldn’t blame the parents because peer pressure isn’t something easy to discuss with your parents. she’s depressed and she thinks suicide is the only way to escape from her misery.

i don’t see why does this has anything to do with MCR at all. the fact that she listens to them doesn’t prove anything at all. so why relate them in the first place?

emo is one thing, MCR IS A TOTAL DIFFERENT THING.

emo is about suicide, MCR IS ABOUT SAVING LIVES.

fuck it, i’m done with this entry.