It's almost as though suicide isn't a joke. But thanks for showing us that you don't care about that. It's nice to know exactly who finds humor in a prank/bet based on the profound losses some of us have suffered, so those of us who aren't laughing can avoid you.

Different people have defferent senses of humor. There is no need to get bent out of shape over it. People are too sensitive nowadays. Joking is a way humans make sense of thinks beyond our understanding.

thank you #50

Your ignorance is appalling. Too sensitive? When I was 18 I got a phone call from my friend's mother, who could barely choke out the words, saying that her daughter had killed herself. Five months ago another of my close friends was hospitalized after she attempted to take her life. I've been on antidepressants for six years trying to stay strong enough just to survive. You have no idea how any of that feels. This kind of prank is not a matter of sensitivity. You've clearly never dealt with any of this. You know nothing about it. I am WELL aware that it's beyond your understanding. But don't disrespect us by telling us what should or should not get us "bent out of shape" when you have never gone through the absolute agony of losing someone because they lost their own fight. That kind of damage isn't reparable. Those people can't be replaced. The gaps in our lives where they used to be don't fill themselves. I'm not laughing.

50 & 56 you two are dumb as hell. The reason we don't joke about some things is to avoid hurting others either directly or because you are making light of something that was either important to them or caused them to hurt. There are some things you don't mock and you don't poke fun at. Somebody who was so depressed by life so much so they wanted to take their own life and someone else's family or friends that they lost are prime examples.

#60 stop being so sensitive

Why don't you stop being so insensitive and realize that you're obviously upsetting someone who has experience with things you do not?

I experience similar things. Yet I can still take a joke

No actually I assume you are worth pitying as you clearly have been too damaged that you don't recognize or care to concern yourself with other people's pain

Come on people. He didn't actually die. If the dad DID however die, this would be the most tragic FML. But the thought of his dad going out of his way to pull a prank I find to be hilarious.

Other people have died this way. That's why it is not a joke you see because trying to make it one openly mocks people who have done this or anyone who has lost somebody this way.

I think you are forgetting one thing here mate, this site is about sharing and people have the right to laugh or not, say what you want to say but reserve your judgment. I agree that it's sad to see people kill them selves but i also think people are week and have no excuse to be depressed .... And i argument that with the fact that there are other people living in worse conditions and in lesser countries and they don't turn to suicide. And yes, it's all about each persons strength to carry on, but don't go around picking on people just because they had a laugh. If you don't understand someone's sens of humor that doesn't mean you get to nag at them. I hope you have the maturity to understand what I'm trying to say here... I'm not saying it's a laughing matter but if someone chooses to laugh at this prank, and express it in a comment, don't "jump" them...

First I'd appreciate if you didn't say "I hope you have the maturity to understand what I'm trying to say here". Sometimes being the neutral party does not make you above the opposing sides. Honestly though I am more offended that when it's clearly bothering other people (who have legitimate reasons for being upset by it) that they still defend their laughter. They are essentially laughing at other people's pain and not like "ha you fell" they are laughing at others grief over dead loved ones and saying learn to take a joke. And besides all of that you do not get to decide if it was weak for someone to commit suicide or not. You don't know the individual circumstances at all. It may occasionally be weakness but you simply don't know how they may have suffered or what they endured or even if they were mentally or emotionally stable to begin with. And depression is an illness that can occur no matter how technically good your life may be so again you don't get to decide if they have an "excuse" for it or not.

#96 Suicide is not a matter of "who has it harder than me"? Look at Robin Williams, the man had wealth, fame, popularity and probably the best doctors and that still didn't prevent him to kill himself. He was not the only one in that situation. Depression is a mental illness, it can hit anyone and beating it or not does not just depend on mental strength. There are loads of factors to consider. It needs to be diagnosed and treated correctly. Often, the sickness is too strong to be beaten. I see it as a mental cancer. Some people survive cancer, some people don't. I lost my best friend 18 months ago to suicide. You would have thought she had it all: a loving boyfriend, a healthy baby, a well-paid job. When depression took over her, she turned into a complete stranger. The person I knew, who was always so generous, devoted to her child, involved in charity work and a strong advocate to ecology simply stopped caring. Little by little, she lost interest in anything that had value to her: her family, her friends, her activities. She who was always a terrible liar and profoundly honest, told her boyfriend the day before she died that they should take a trip to Italy the following year and told me we should meet up for coffee the following week. We discovered later that she was actually planning to kill herself on that fateful weekend and ensured that no one could prevent it. So it REALLY pisses me off when I hear this bullshit about weakness. People who say that have absolutely NO idea how severe depression destroys someone’s life and personality. They say hell is the absence of hope. And that’s how she felt. She was convinced that she would never get better. She left notes telling us to be relieved that she was gone and thinking that our lives would be for the better without her. I am all for different types of humour but there are limits. When you have experienced the devastating horror and guilt of losing a loved one to suicide, you will never be able to laugh about it and even less consider it prank-worthy.

I wonder how you would feel if your insensitive comments caused someone to hurt themselves or worse? It might be a joke to you, but it could be everything to them

It's really funny how people with less to live for and with terminal diagnostics don't take the easy way out...but sure, they are not mentally ill, I think you and Wolfparable are both Americans and probably way into the idea of p.c or whatever. I'm not gonna bother debating this with you because that's exactly what you want. Instead I'm gonna say this : This topic is just like religion, you should keep your beliefs, but you shouldn't shove them down other peoples throats ... cause that's exactly what you are doing. That and are judging others. Get over yourselves... cause nobody was laughing at you, your friends or was directly laughing at your particular situation. Both of you should lose this self righteous attitude and stop judging people who want to laugh.

#111 Thank you for illustrating what I just said about your complete ignorance on mental illnesses. If you can’t make the difference between a mental illness that destroys someone’s very essence and judgement and a physical illness that destroys someone’s body, maybe open a book and document yourself on the subject. This topic is not like religion, it’s not about beliefs, it’s about scientifically recognised illnesses. You’re the person here applying uneducated beliefs to something very real. I am French by the way, so your comment about Americans was not only dumb and but also showed how narrow-minded you are. We didn’t say that someone was laughing at us, we clearly said that taking the topic of suicide so lightly that you think it’s funny to prank someone with it is an asshole and deeply insensitive move. I hope however for your sake that you will never be in the position to understand how we feel about it.

I was not saying anything about any one person's situation or that this was a good prank. All I said is that sometimes people joke to cope with situations they can't handle. Do you know what laughter is? Laughter in its most basic form is a defence mechanism triggered by panic. When I said don't get bent out of shape I meant don't let others affect you. If it is too close to home for you to joke about that is fine, but don't expect everyone to feel the same way. Yes there is a certain lack of decorum when laughing at these situations but people are imperfect. Don't say it is too horrible to joke about when I have seen many of you make holocaust jokes. What if a survivor of that horrible time saw those jokes?

It sickens me more than I can say that anyone has to argue this. It should be painfully obvious that this "joke" is obviously painful to a lot of people. If you're telling someone to lighten up because they don't find this funny, you're being insensitive and rude. There are many people (I know at least two) who have actually come home and found that their fathers had taken their own life. Their grief is real, and not something that should be mocked or made light of. Regardless of how you feel about people who have committed suicide, you should feel some compassion for the ones who loved them who are left to grieve. Even if you've never experienced the pain of losing someone yourself, at the very least you can try to imagine what they are feeling and understand that it's not something at which you should poke fun. Show some sympathy and compassion for the feelings of those around you; to do anything less is inhuman.

#96 - "I agree that it's sad to see people kill them selves but i also think that people are week and have no excuse to be depressed"... Wow, really? That is extremely offensive. Depression doesn't happen because someone is weak, it's a mental illness. F off. Not everyone can put a big smile on their face and sing the day away. Depression =/= weakness.

Lighten up.

Yeah, we'll talk again when somebody fake-shooting themselves actually becomes funny.

I accidentally pressed dislike Dx but I agree 100% faking suicide for a bet is inconsiderate and completely awful. What he did was seriously ****** up. Suicide isn't a joke, it's a serious matter. A loved one faking a suicide is one of the lowest things someone can do.

#52- imagine walking in on one of your loved ones pulling this prank on you... now try to take your own advice. I feel like I would have decked my dad if he ever did this

this made me ill as well. my dad used to get drunk and play with his guns. he shot a hole into my sister's room when she was 6. if she was sitting up in her bed, she would have been hit. when I was 14 years old, (13 years ago) I was sitting in the living room watching spongebob and my dad was in his bedroom, drunk. I hear a gunshot and I honestly sat there for 10 minutes or so stunned. I didn't know what to do....walk in there and everything be okay or walk in there and see the worse. when I did, I discovered that he just shot a hole in his bed. :/ I'm sorry too OP! Nobody should ever think that is a joke!

You can buy fake blood, make it out of corn syrup and food coloring, and many more ways

How did he make it look like it actually "splatter" if he pretended to kill himself in front of op?

OP MIGHT be in some other room when he heard a gunshot from his father's room n then he rushed there only to find his dad lying dead with a gun n blood splattered all over... anyways, that's really extreme n disturbing on the father's part.