She talked on Facebook about her suicidal thoughts a few times over the last month. They massively reported her every time to get it taken down. That happened after years of harassment. It´s hard to look at it without finding KF being directly responsible.
My point is that the focus on the harassers, rather than whatever else was going on, is because it's an identifiable malign element we've seen before, will see again, the evidence of it still exists and it's just a matter of time before they do it again. Online harassment is a regular recurring general topic here and provides something we can see and discuss, whereas few of us know enough to be focusing on the mental health issues of the deceased. That doesn't mean that other aspects weren't important, I just wouldn't even know where to start discussing them when the people that know enough to do so confidently and with tact can probably do so without my armchair analysis.
Read their forums. She was harassed due to her gender identity. There is a reason why transgender people commit more suicides; that reason doesn´t come from within them, it comes from those who are around, and it gets greatly amplified if someone becomes the target of massive harassment.
True. It does make me wonder though, when harassment is specifically aimed at people that could be identified as more vulnerable to such issues, and it includes actively organising to attempt to silence their crys for help and enable their suicide because they are more likely to suffer, whether that has gone way beyond just 'harassment' or 'bullying' at that point. I don't know what the right term would be on a scale of abuse, but the organised hounding of those with mental health problems towards suicide just doesn't seem like something an aggressor should be able to step away from scot-free and (hypothetically) say 'I only harassed and encouraged her to do it, but she killed herself'. I'm just thinking out loud here, not disagreeing with you.
You are totally right, what they did is punishable in many countries. Spain, for instance, has a crime called "incitement to suicide" as well as "denial of help". Basically, if you harass a person, you are responsible for that harassment. But if the target of your harassment commits suicide, you are also responsible for that. Whether that responsibility is complete or partial is up to the jury, but in both cases you are going away for a while. If it gets confirmed that they organized to report her calls for help on Facebook, they could be charged with denial of help, which is a felony too. All of that on top of the continued and organized harassment, of course.
