I can't believe how stupid the author of this website is. Did this person ever graduate high school? The author completely confuses causation with correlation. To cite an article which states 40% of self-proclaimed goths cut themselves and/or attempted suicide is one thing. To then say that the goth crowd encourages cutting and suicide is completely different. And then to go on and warn parents that if their children become goth that they will kill themselves? It is more likely one embraces "goth" because one is already doing these things. Furthermore, even that conclusion is an empty one since it ignores total teenager statistics concerning cutting and suicide.