Um...
(raises black-gloved hand)
Both my friends have attempted suicide. Neither of them are goth or emo. And yet here I am, with my heavy eyeliner and dark lipstick and black clothes and dyed-dark hair... and suicide has never really appealed to me. The only times I get depressed are when I'm having a depressive episode (it runs in my family). I'm a bit of a pessimist, to be sure, but a lot less so than most of the people I know. And too much black makeup? It brings my skin tone into sharp relief, which i think is really pretty.
Just a goth's two cents.
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