The Office's mock-hanging no laughing matter for mental health groups
The American Federation for Suicide Prevention was put off by last week's Halloween episode of the Emmy-winning sitcom, in which Steve Carell's character slips a noose around his neck and fakes a hanging to scare a group of young visitors to Dunder-Mifflin's haunted house.
"Kids, just remember, suicide is not the answer. It is the easy way out," Michael reminds them afterward.
Same old delusional Michael, maybe, but a really inappropriate line according to the people whose mission it is to educate about mental illness and prevent others from taking their own lives.
"We're not trying to be censors or fall into the trap of wanting everything to be PC, politically correct," AFSP executive director Robert Gebbia told the Associated Press. "But on the other hand, it's offensive to some people who have lost relatives to suicide by hanging."
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11-06-09
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