Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst commits suicide by jumping from New York high rise

This younger generations of today many say have it a lot easier with the fancy technology and the internet and phones at there disposal at all times, but one thing that in my personal opinion that has been nothing more than horrible in today's society is that of Social Media. #1 the bullying and attacks that take place on those outlets, and #2 the misinformation that is spread through posts and advertisements. Social Media in my opinion is a major contributor to why the world is so divided and the way it is today.

Rest In Peace Cheslie. Very sad.
 
Rah-Rah said:
This younger generations of today many say have it a lot easier with the fancy technology and the internet and phones at there disposal at all times, but one thing that in my personal opinion that has been nothing more than horrible in today's society is that of Social Media. #1 the bullying and attacks that take place on those outlets, and #2 the misinformation that is spread through posts and advertisements. Social Media in my opinion is a major contributor to why the world is so divided and the way it is today.

Rest In Peace Cheslie. Very sad.
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100% agreed.
 
dseag2 said:
So very tragic and shocking. She was only 30, so beautiful and intelligent and had such a bright future ahead. We never know what demons others are struggling with. :(
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I saw that earlier today. I just read a bit about her. She was definitely an overachiever and perhaps she couldn't do as much as she wanted to do. I don't know. Maybe she had problems with relationships. Who knows? This story will be buried soon since she wasn't that well known.
 
To be honest I had never heard of her until this, she was very beautiful. How she could believe anything that said she wasn't, and push her into suicide I don't understand. What a pity. RIP
 
Perhaps she simply expected too much of herself. Committing suicide seems a very drastic way to deal with problems though. I agree that social media really shows up how many unpleasant people there are in the world. A lot of the nastiness stems from jealousy and envy, I'm sure. A pity she allowed them to push her into ending her life. I wonder how they feel now?
 
Such a beautiful girl. It's too bad she succumbed to the hateful comments (if that was indeed the reason), rather than standing in her own truth...that she was beautiful and obviously very intelligent. Too bad she couldn't take Christie Tiegen's tack of giving back as good as she gets, often shaming the would be shamers. It's always sad to read of a young life lost and it's so sad that she felt this was the only way to deal with her pain. May she Rest in Peace.
 
It's sad that she felt that life was so bad that she decided to end hers. I've had thoughts, from time to time, about ending it all but obviously I never acted upon them. Her troubles are done with now but the ones she left behind, they'll have to live with the pain of her actions for the rest of their lives. That's even more sad, to me, because I'm sure that she left behind both family and friends who likely had no idea just how distraught she'd become.

People online can definitely be cruel to one another and they may not mean for their harshness to cause a person to feel the need to take their own life. But it happens, from time to time, I imagine but it doesn't make the news. It takes the same amount of breath to say something kind as it does to say something mean. I've read a few heated discussions on here and been talked down to a few times myself but not to the point where I felt that I'd be better off dead. I'm not getting any younger, none of us are and it's not that important that I need to prove anything to anyone here or to be right all of the time. I'm right enough, often enough, to suit me just fine. And although there are some whom I avoid here, I don't bear any ill will towards them or anyone in my offline life either.

It will be forgotten by most of us, soon enough, what happened to that young woman but what happened to her will happen to someone else and there's no vaccine for hurtful words. Some people are just more sensitive than others. I try my best to be kind and sometimes, I fall short. But I'm pretty certain that you'll not get any words from my poison pen (or keyboard) ever.

Live and let live. If no one told you today that they love you, maybe there's a reason for that? But even if not, why don't we all tell those we love that we truly do love and respect them. It doesn't cost anything but our time and who knows what disaster it might prevent. I hope tat none of us ever have to endure such a devastating event but with as many of us as there are, some of us likely already have. My heart goes out to you because you're the ones who feel the pain still. I hope that life gets better for us all.
 
Lewkat said:
She left a note stating that she was almost 30 and couldn't face the fact that she was getting old. I nearly fell off my chair with that one. This younger generation is so obsessed with youth, so that age 30 is old? Sad indeed.
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30 is old when 30 is all that you've known. When one is 60, 70 or older, 30 is nothing. But you can't know that until you get those extra years under your belt. I've been young, we all have but young people have never been as old as we are. And sadly, some of them will never get the chance to be. She was one of those.
 
Chris P Bacon said:
30 is old when 30 is all that you've known. When one is 60, 70 or older, 30 is nothing. But you can't know that until you get those extra years under your belt. I've been young, we all have but young people have never been as old as we are. And sadly, some of them will never get the chance to be. She was one of those.
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I agree. When both I and a work colleague turned 30 within a week of each other, we kept it a secret, went to lunch and talked about how awful it was to leave the 20's behind.

Tragic that someone could feel that life is over at 30.
 
This is very sad, television or whoever devise these competitions,
should council the successful people for some time after their
stint is over and all the adulation stops, the phone doesn't ring
like it did etc., etc., you get the picture.

We had similar here a while back, somebody from "Love Island",
I believe, a young woman who couldn't stand the silence.

Of course, she could have been pushed!

R.I.P. Cheslie Kryst.

Mike.
 
I never heard of her till this ....... any hint of foul play ? I don't know which is worse , foul play or suicide .

May she rest in peace .
 
Bonnie said:
I just don't get how people who have it all can do that .... the power of social media is unbelievable!
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But that's just it Bonnie. She had beauty, fame, and a good college degree, and she had probably been told that was "all," and found out it wasn't.

I never heard of her until yesterday so I read a little about her. She did sound very driven to perfection, she had suffered a small breakdown during college because she was studying too hard.

Then she was part of that horrible beauty pageant circus. That does nothing but teach women to constantly compare themselves with others and think their youthful beauty is everything.

We're pushing young women too much. We aren't impressed unless they're doing some sort of powerful job, preferably something previously only done by men, look beautiful while they do it and spend their first thousand dollars on plastic surgery so they can have bodies not found in nature. They're considered lazy if they want to just stay home for a few years and raise their children.

I'm an old under-achiever and I'm happy. I wish I could explain that to young people. The purpose of life isn't to build impressive resumes, it's here to be enjoyed. Just love other people and appreciate the fun stuff.
 
Such "a shame"...she seemed so "together"..but you don't really know someone
else's "pain"...😢
RIP, Chelsie
 
I read this yesterday. So sad but not surprising! Social media seems to be the accepted "drug" for the last decade or so. It seems every Tom, Dick and Harry is doing it. Oh yes, every Susan, Mary and Daphne are doing it too! Hey, Donald Trump was on it all the time; Twitter I believe. Even my own daughter sleeps with her "smartphone." Social media has divided people on the topic of Covid19 and here in Canada, it has divided people over the "Freedom" Ride to Ottawa with the big rig truckers. Me, I keep away from social media like poison. No Facebook nor no Twitting for me. This site is the only one I look at. If I was attacked I would get off here ASAP. There seems to be a very strong addiction to social medias and young kids cannot live without it. We had a few instances of teenagers here in Canada committing suicide because they had people ganging up on them and telling them "they were ugly and it would be better off if they killed themselves." I think I will just stick with my flip phone. Life is stressful enough with this bloody Covid.

The trouble is that young people have this great peer pressure to want to be liked. I'm lucky; I'm 75 and couldn't give a hoot if someone doesn't like me. I would like them to like me but if they don't "bugger them all."
 
Packerjohn said:
I read this yesterday. So sad but not surprising! Social media seems to be the accepted "drug" for the last decade or so. It seems every Tom, Dick and Harry is doing it. Oh yes, every Susan, Mary and Daphne are doing it too! Hey, Donald Trump was on it all the time; Twitter I believe. Even my own daughter sleeps with her "smartphone." Social media has divided people on the topic of Covid19 and here in Canada, it has divided people over the "Freedom" Ride to Ottawa with the big rig truckers. Me, I keep away from social media like poison. No Facebook nor no Twitting for me. This site is the only one I look at. If I was attacked I would get off here ASAP. There seems to be a very strong addiction to social medias and young kids cannot live without it. We had a few instances of teenagers here in Canada committing suicide because they had people ganging up on them and telling them "they were ugly and it would be better off if they killed themselves." I think I will just stick with my flip phone. Life is stressful enough with this bloody Covid.

The trouble is that young people have this great peer pressure to want to be liked. I'm lucky; I'm 75 and couldn't give a hoot if someone doesn't like me. I would like them to like me but if they don't "bugger them all."
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Social Media and really any other forum like site gives people the opportunity to sit behind their screen and say whatever they feel like saying to someone without feeling like they have any consequences behind the cruel actions they say. Most of these people that say these things would never say these things to these people standing in front of them. Social Media has been for the most part an awful addition to the internet.
 

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