Samantha Kuberski, Six Years Old, Youngest Suicide Victim in Oregon State History

[Lbelle]

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/daily...x-years-ol.php

Six-year-old Samantha Kuberski was a happy kid who did well at school. Which is why tragedy was compounded by shock back in January, when medical examiners in Yamhill County, south of Portland, declared Samantha's death a suicide, making her the youngest person to take her own life in Oregon's history.

On December 2, the first-grader was allegedly sent to her room after getting in a fight with her mom. While her mother and three sisters were in other parts of their McMinnville house, Samatha reportedly crawled into an unused crib that had no mattress or box spring, tied a cordurouy belt around her neck and onto the crib's top railing and hung herself.

Samantha was found unconscious and rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her parents and siblings were later interviewed by police, who ruled out any foul play and said they found no signs that the young girl had ever been abused.

Now the only thing left to parse is what to call Samantha's tragic death. While the medical examiner has ruled it a suicide, detectives insist on calling it an accident, saying that a child that small could have no idea of the consequences of her actions, an argument backed up by adolescent psychiatrists like Dr. Kirk Wolfe.

"Most kids this age are not aware of what death actually is," he told the Yamhill Valley News-Register. "Not until they get to be 8, 9 and 10 do they understand death is final and you don't come back."

[Nightraid]

I've noticed a lot of suicides happening lately.... But how does a 6 year old even understand that idea.

[Odesseiron]

I've noticed a lot of suicides happening lately.... But how does a 6 year old even understand that idea.

TV? Maybe she has a family that was watching Lost and saw Locke hanging himself. Who knows. That is crazy.

[Tyche]

This 3 word phrase is usually used with sarcasm, but honestly, Oh my god. That is fucking terrible.

[Mizango]

Collateral damage. That'll teach her parents to ground her in a war zone.

[Mizango]

That does suck though. Very sad.

[Cream Soda]

Kid couldn't stand Obama.

[Jaybar]

Oh you....(@both of you now)



Also: Trajic indeed.

[Day]

Collateral damage. That'll teach her parents to ground her in a war zone.

lol

[Lucavi]

As much as I enjoy the prospect of humans dying (especially when the wounds are self-inflicted), I cannot enjoy this one. No foul play, no abusive parents, just a child that picked up something that she shouldn't have had anything to do with knowing about at that age. How the hell did she know how to tie a knot that well?

Bah, stupid teens and adults are supposed to die, not the children. The kids at least have time to grow out of their stupidity, but this one wasn't even stupid... What a waste.

[Shinryuu]

What Lucavi said, and yeah, this isn't suicide, it's an accident.

[Seanr]

RIP little one :/

[Chun Liroy]

Well that's uh... interesting. Anyone else found it fairly interesting that she knew exactly what to do? <_<;;;

[Day]

The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.

[Kaludneisucks]

"Parse" ? Using third party tools is a violation of SE user agreement.

[Drex]

But without one, we'll never know who won: the crib or the belt?

[Niiro]

Wouldn't have happened if she had a gun.

Spoiler: show

wait...well, it would have happened differently I suppose.

[Mizango]

*camera

[Ikith]

Wow there are no words that can explain how bad I feel for the family who the hell would have seen that coming.

[Pirian]

If she couldn't handle her parents there's no way she would have made it through being a teen