Tuesday 13 November 2007

Dangerous Excitement

Pan, a 17 teenager committed suicide because of fruit machine casino in Suzhou, China


Pan thought he lost 100,000 Yuan(about £6,700 ) after several months’ spilling money gambling game. Then he decided to kill himself.

Remaining roast eggplant, a bottle of agricultural chemical, and a post named “suicide note of complaints” on BBS became the only things he left to his family.


What I can see is a heart-stricken father, holding his son’s picture, whose tears were exhausted. “I really hope that my death can arouse the boss of fruit machine casino playing centre and punish them.” Pan must be shouting from his heart at his last time, but he still could not have any courage to face his live.

Pan disclosed that near Hualian supermarket there was a fruit machine casino playing centre, which made him homeless and dare not go to school. Leaving his father’s phone number, he made a choice of suicide. Hence, the tragedy.


21st September 2007, 3000 fruit machine casinos were crushed down by Beijing Public Security Bureau; from July to September of this year, Tianjin Public Security Bureau investigated and captured more than 550 fruit machine casinos; city Yangpu destroyed more than 800 fruit machine casinos during June......Government took actions, obviously.

Destroying the machines is absolutely necessary. Please allow me just narrow the main issue to problem of teenagers. So, another significant thing must be giving a guide to the young people. Since immature, they are easily affected by others and indulging themselves to something, which they consider as very new and exciting. Then it’s possible for them losing their bearings. And even, one pit-fall leads to endless misery and regret. That is an old Chinese saying.

Government, society and family are obliged, and imperative to create some opportunities to enrich young people’s life of the mind. Especially the government, opening some camps of science or society,for example, will be helpful, and of course, free is best, because in China, many family still can’t afford the camp fees, especially the migrant worker’s family as Pan’s. That’s why Psychologist Ms Sudan Xu stated, as the background of family, pan must easily welter in unhealthy games, such as gambling, which I think, is really a dangerous excitement.

Eventually, “Life is valuable. But life belongs to us only once.” I am sure most of us know it thoroughly. Pan could choose between death and bravely facing reality. Unfortunately, he made such a decision.

I would always like focusing teenager’s problem because I think, to some extent, (maybe) to be a little bit exaggeration, it has respect to the future of a country. In my opionion, it’s difficult for a country to be stronger and have a prosperous prospects in the furure if it never follows adolescent education closely.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

good point

Unknown said...

Gambling's long history proves that, it can not be perished.Destroying the machines is not a good measure. Life is full of Gambling. Gamblingmachine is only the expression of one's desire of gambling. Without machines can appear many types of gamblingtools.
The point is how man teach the teenager to face the result of gambling.
Abitur,called "gaokao" in china,is also a gambling.No one knows the result before doing it. Many students do some negativ active because of the failing of"gaokao". that's similar to that young boy. (Please excuse for my poor english,and i hope you can understand, for i haven't write in english for a long time.)

jacky said...

Pan's father definitely has responsibility on pan's death. 100000 RMB is not a small amount of money. How can a father give this amount of money to his son without any query?

jacky said...

Pan's father definitely has responsibility on pan's death. 100000 RMB is not a small amount of money. How can a father give this amount of money to his son without any query?

Unknown said...

What I want to say after reading the article is that people is easy to be empty. Especially, the contempory Chinese are full of empty and lonely when they have the leisure time. That's actually a tragedy in life.