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<blockquote data-quote="Number47" data-source="post: 134470" data-attributes="member: 84">I don't really feel like reading through the article again, but I was under the impression that the &quot;kid&quot; was an adult and lived in his own apartment. Unfortunately, there is little you can do to prevent an adult from committing suicide if they are determined. In fact, even committing them would do little. A truly determined individual can pretend mental health long enough to be considered over the &quot;episode&quot;. I think this is another one of those cases that we Americans always think that somebody has to be to blame. Even those people who think the corporation is blameless blame somebody else, the mother. Remember that even given a sample of people that everything reasonable and possible is done to prevent it, a percentage will wind up dying anyways.As for frivolous lawsuits, I got to be on the jury for one of those (frivolous in my opinion, that is). You remember the so-called &quot;Jenny Jones murder&quot;? Two guys were on the show, and the one killed the other later on. I got to be on the jury for the wrongful death suit against the show. Of nine jurors, I was the only one who voted against the plaintiff. If I recall correctly, we awarded the family 24 million. For big cases like this, I really think that you can get a jury to consider anything over the course of six weeks (not sequestered, thankfully!). Most of us had trouble staying awake during the trial, much less follow the facts closely. Of course, I believe that I followed the actual facts while the other jurors simply voted with emotion, but they would probably disagree with me. In my opinion, the logic comes down to this: this family suffered a hideous tragedy (true), this corporation has a ton of money (true), somebody must be at fault (true), so why don't we have this big faceless corporation fork over a ton of money for the family? Not to mention that we didn't have to find the companies action the only cause of the tragedy, but only a proximate cause.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Number47, post: 134470, member: 84"] I don't really feel like reading through the article [b]again[/b], but I was under the impression that the "kid" was an adult and lived in his own apartment. Unfortunately, there is little you can do to prevent an adult from committing suicide if they are determined. In fact, even committing them would do little. A truly determined individual can pretend mental health long enough to be considered over the "episode". I think this is another one of those cases that we Americans always think that somebody has to be to blame. Even those people who think the corporation is blameless blame somebody else, the mother. Remember that even given a sample of people that everything reasonable and possible is done to prevent it, a percentage will wind up dying anyways. As for frivolous lawsuits, I got to be on the jury for one of those (frivolous in my opinion, that is). You remember the so-called "Jenny Jones murder"? Two guys were on the show, and the one killed the other later on. I got to be on the jury for the wrongful death suit against the show. Of nine jurors, I was the only one who voted against the plaintiff. If I recall correctly, we awarded the family 24 million. For big cases like this, I really think that you can get a jury to consider anything over the course of six weeks (not sequestered, thankfully!). Most of us had trouble staying awake during the trial, much less follow the facts closely. Of course, I believe that I followed the actual facts while the other jurors simply voted with emotion, but they would probably disagree with me. In my opinion, the logic comes down to this: this family suffered a hideous tragedy (true), this corporation has a ton of money (true), somebody must be at fault (true), so why don't we have this big faceless corporation fork over a ton of money for the family? Not to mention that we didn't have to find the companies action the only cause of the tragedy, but only a proximate cause. [/QUOTE]

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