WOW, i'm absolutely speechless...laughing at a suicide??? that's a new low even by Fox News standards...

I think you would like the event if you stayed away from the analysing and focussed on being a part of something great which is really easy to do there. No where else do you find that level of generosity and love in one community. yes there are tourists and your attitude towards them will shape who they do or do not become that week. Everyone has the ability to transform, the positive insights you gained when you first came to BM will always be needed nad should be shared. It is a shame to see people become jaded and leave the best community on the planet. Everything evolves and takes work to nurture, it is only conservatives that want nothing to change and can not see the future in front of them. It is a trap of those over thirty and takes more vigilance to resist the older one becomes. Please Stay and evolove

Wow.

That is pretty sad, actually.

then be there next year to create the event you desire

Unfortunately, Moist Pup -- I think that's human nature. You see a lot of the same stuff happening in this tribe. Put them on permanent "ignore". =)

Perhaps the best response is to ignore it, but also send as much threatening hate mail to Redeye as much as possible. =) ...Kinda half-serious about that.

But the more we stir up the dust in response, the more attention it will get, and we'll certainly attract more and more of the wrong crowds.

the key is not to watch television
look away
create your own universe
create it with others
Burning Man is the perfect place for that

the more we turn off televisions and magazines that celebrate the empty pop culture
the less we talk about that
and instead focuss on what we as a community and as individuals can create the closer we will be towards
liberating ourselves from the negative

yeah, that's a good point, Matt, and Chris...

Atleast since Fox is giving BM the bad rep., atleast it will help minimize the amount of 'yahoos' and dumbasses to attend BM.

Oh god...who the f*ck ARE these people? and why are they all talking like Valley people?? (Like, Oh Myyy God!...like, Burning Man is like just a bunch of teenagers and buckets of drugs and dirty unwashed undeoderized theives who want to get you high and entertain you with their art-cars so they can steal your baseball hat! Oh Myyy Goddd!!)

the average age of a Burner is 36 years old.

i am not a trust-fund baby, and i don't do Exstacy.

fuckers....yeeeuuucccckk! total lack of respect for common decency

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful

Good idea, Danger Angel!

Even better...turn them off. They don't give a shit about your opinion, they give a shit about their ratings.

Stop watching them is the most powerful thing all of us can do
I am suprised people on this site even watch that crap
The truth does not exist on television
it exists deep within us
there is no question you can not answer once you seperate it from emtion

On the morning of Thursday, August 30th a young man from Colorado
chose to end his life in the rafters of a public tent at the Comfort &
Joy Burning Man theme camp.

Though he was unknown to us, in the wake of his passing we're learning
from those who knew him that he was creative, kind, unconventional and
smart, and that he was regarded with affection by many.

His final act, committed in solitude, has one lasting effect as it
brings us together to mark his passing. To all who have offered our
camp their sympathy and support during this time, thank you. To all
who knew him, please accept our sincere condolences.

It is estimated that there was an one hour interval between the last
visit to the tent by a camp member, and the discovery of the body by a
second camp member. It is believed that the tent was unoccupied
during this time, and that there were no witnesses to the suicide.

One other individual, not associated in any way with the camp, was in
the tent at the time the body was discovered. Emergency personnel
were immediately contacted by camp members. Authorities responded
within minutes and closed the scene upon arrival.

The Black Rock City Rangers, Sheriffs and other law enforcement
officials who assisted us with this incident were very professional,
supportive, and helpful to us at a difficult time. We are grateful
for their services. We are also thankful for the warm and organized
support we have received from the grief counselors from the Black Rock
City Mental Health Team. They helped us openly discuss what had
happened and come to a shared understanding of the morning's events.

Much of our camp was quarantined while the coroners did their jobs and
we canceled that day's events (a yoga class, a queer discussion group,
glitter body painting and a watercolor painting workshop).

As a camp, we decided to make a contribution to David Best's Temple of
Forgiveness, where people can mourn, remember, write messages and
leave items to be ceremonially burned on Sunday night. We felt the
rope the young man used represented the terrible violence he committed
upon himself and the people around him. By sending the rope up in
flames, we hoped to allow some of that pain to disperse. None of us
believe that this young man wanted to trouble us with his actions.

The members of Comfort & Joy extend their deepest sympathy to all who
knew this young man. Our hearts go out to his family, friends, and
special people in his life. Although we will never know or understand
him the way you did, he indeed touched us as well, made us grow, and
hopefully become better individuals. May the rest of his journey be
peaceful and lead him to the joy we all seek in our lives.

We look forward to continuing our mission of creating positive, warm
and supportive queer community both in Black Rock City and the Bay
Area.

With love and respect,

The Comfort & Joy Family
www.playajoy.org

All media outlets should be cc'd on your letter/email to FAUX NEWS...

How many people here have stood up politically for the festival you so love???

Let's have an "AMEN" to sending FAUX NEWS the facts!

No.
Don't stir up any more dust about this whole thing. The more news coverage, the more BM will blow up to be so popular, it will become over-populated and that'll be the end.

Right on.

Thanks for speaking my mind!

=)

thats the best thing I have read on this subject. I hope people realize what you have. Thats the spirit of the community.

CALL THEM.

WRITE THEM.

THE MEDIA WILL NOT CHANGE UNTIL YOU CHANGE IT.

It amazes me so many people here to not understand the news and fox broadcasting.
news is distorted to serve up ratings and reafirm image in Foxe's case
thank you for your words

What bothers me is none of them have ever gone, nor do any of them seem to actually know anyone that has gone. It's like telling people all about Iran without ever actually studying it or going there. Just like most of the news from FOX.

Yes, i noticed that too...truly one of the most disturbing things i've seen on t.v. in a long time....like they even know anything about LSD...lol....

yes turn off the telivision
thats what they are afraid of
ignore them and they become irrelevant

Thank you for posting that Scott. The more fox news and it's cast of village idiots is outed the easier it is to fight them.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

-- from Geetanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

If you think these guys are brown shirts, I'd hate to see what you'd do if you actually met a real fascist.

Hey, talk show hosts that push your buttons are not fascists. It's called free speech. Their slant on the burn is designed to appeal to the biases of their audience, nothing more.

Get real. You are trivializing the real political problems in the country of right-wing agendas controlling government institutions by conflating some off-the-wall smirks about Burning Man by these talking heads as being fascism.

You really want to do some payback, then prank them, make fake media reports that are so absurd it is embarrassing to contemplate and file them with Fox and these folks' production department and see if it gets online.

Giant crocodile eats burner, news at 11. That would be payback.

consider the source: Fox News, the biggest pack of fuckin' Nazis ever to own the airwaves of America. Why anyone would subject themselves to the slimy drivel that spews forth from their mouths is beyond me.

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The trust fund kids may have been at the opulent temple dancing to half of rabbit in the moon....

yea that line killed me.......rich ahhh what? okay white for the most part......trust funds huh?

Gary (46) a poor dad with a big dream of going to BM

"Where are the "rich white kids on trust funds?"

You'd be suprised by the ammount of trust fund-funded art there is in BRC.

I'd rather they spend it on art than yachts.

"typical conservative Christian pro life perspective" makes it easy to joke about suicide? so liberal atheists don't also make jokes about suicide? come'on...

PS. I'm desperately sorry that they made fun of the suicide like this.

Have they ever had a suicide?
Do they know what it's like because they wouldn't be so glib otherwise.

Lyrics to the song 'Suicide is Painless'

Through early morning fog I see

visions of the things to be

the pains that are withheld for me

I realize and I can see...

[REFRAIN]:

that suicide is painless

It brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

I try to find a way to make

all our little joys relate

without that ever-present hate

but now I know that it's too late, and...

[REFRAIN]

The game of life is hard to play

I'm gonna lose it anyway

The losing card I'll someday lay

so this is all I have to say.

[REFRAIN]

The only way to win is cheat

And lay it down before I'm beat

and to another give my seat

for that's the only painless feat.

[REFRAIN]

The sword of time will pierce our skins

It doesn't hurt when it begins

But as it works its way on in

The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...

[REFRAIN]

A brave man once requested me

to answer questions that are key

is it to be or not to be

and I replied 'oh why ask me?'

[REFRAIN]

'Cause suicide is painless

it brings on many changes

and I can take or leave it if I please.

...and you can do the same thing if you please.