What I love is that people claim so frequently that those with Mental Illnesses are incapable of using proper judgement or thought, and now in the comments people are claiming that this boy made his bed and has to lay in it.

This is like when an adult preys on a child, but in a different sense. When it's an adult and child, the deception and manipulation is so easily committed because of the child's naivety and lack of life experience. In this scenario, she preyed on his insecurities, his feelings of worthlessness, his relationship to her, and at a moment when he lacked mental clarity.

How would we be charging men and women who encourage children to jump off a bridge? When someone is confused, hopeless, and unable to make their own decisions (as is the frequent case with people who are suffering an attack from their mental illness), guiding them to commit injury to themselves is completely horrible, and should result in the perpetrator of the guidance to be condemned.

'Get back in the car'... Who in their right mind would say this to someone who clearly cannot make decisions in their best interest? There was a case on the news years ago about a man (named William Francis Melchart-Dinkel) who went onto chat rooms disguised as a woman and encouraged youths to kill themselves. He said they would kill themselves together on camera, and he would watch the teens do it through his camera to get some sick pleasure from it. This girl is receiving sick pleasure in the form of secondary gains from his death. She has people swarming her with donations to a mental health charity, people looked up to her for comforting his family, people gave her sympathy for losing someone she loved... She got attention at the expense of someone else's life. Absolutely horrific.

And before people get on my case about my comparison to children and the mentally ill, I am not saying people with mental illnesses cannot function as adults, more that their decisions aren't always theirs to control when they are manic, catatonic, depressed, or having an anxiety attack (Which is why people can plead insanity in court). I, myself have major depressive disorder, and have lost a friend to suicide, as well as having numerous other loved ones with mental health issues. I'm angry that someone would take advantage of a hopeless person at their weakest moment.