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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4745365" data-attributes="member: 2572">The show may not have covered the subject in the best way. What I found interesting and that pushed the envelope is that they covered the issue at all in the way that they did.Suicide has been shown plenty before, and even on network TV. What is not shown however is a regular character committing suicide. Normally when a regular character decides to leave a show they may or may not kill them off, but if the character does die it is anything/everything except suicide. The only other instance I can think of where a regular character committed suicide was in Suddenly Susan when David Strickland committed suicide in real life and the show also had his character commit suicide so that they could cover the issue in the show. Network TV has covered regular characters attempting suicide, or contemplating it but never actually killing themselves. They tend to cover the issue of suicide prevention, but rarely do they cover the effects of it when it does happen. House is also interesting because suicide wasn't used as a memorial or a chance at everyone remembering the character. It showed that life goes on and that different peeople react differently. Not everyone gets together and has a big group cry. Forman takes time off to the extreme of cutting Thirteen out of his life. Taub avoids the whole situation and supresses everything until he finally breaks. Dr. House doesn't care about the loss except in a selfish way in how it impacts him. Kutners parents are confused and are having to deal with people both sypathetic and people blaming them. Life is complex with all sorts of people and the show went right there without flintching.</blockquote>

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