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I read it had to with the Michael feeling that he had no friends. What the hell has happened to this country? Are we such a My Space/Facebook kind of culture that having no friends is so bad that one might consider suicide? I'm kind of repulsed actually. This is what I read... Michael felt alone and unpopular. That is so terrible. No one should feel bad about themselves just because they don't have many friends. Someone needed to shake some sense in to him.
Nothing against the Osmonds, I have been a huge fan my whole life, but I think the Mormon culture puts too much emphasis on being well liked. The family thing is fine and healthy imo. I lived in Salt Lake for three and a half years and it seemed to me that being well liked/respected/included a big deal to them.
Maybe though family was not enough for him and he did not feel close to the family which caused him to feel that he needed more from others.
Repulsed? Are you serious?? It's not like he left a note that said "OMG. So and so ignored my FB request. I've had it with not having the mostest friends on the web!" ...have you ever dealt with serious depression? He struggled with it for a long time. To feel like you have not one soul in the world to confide in or relate to, or that nobody will ever understand you.. what does that have to do with social networking? Humans need personal connections and relationships. I'm sure a lot of emotions and different situations piled up on him to make him find suicide as the right answer. His feelings of loneliness may have been a reason he listed, but when you're dealing with a mental illness like that it's not that you feel like you don't have good friends one day and decide to end it, that's just more or less the straw that broke the camels back... I feel so bad for the family, and I hope they find strength in one another as they deal with this.
It's probably because of the Mormon church and the fact that Michael was gay.. So extremely depressing. I lived in Salt Lake for three and a half years. Mormons are nice people, but the culture is very different. I am very sad for the whole family.
Marie Osmond's Son Michael Blosil Commits Suicide (http://soccer.msg.com/article/04EZ3x3akabB9?q=Utah - broken link)
The Mormons are apparently very focused on their cause... traditional marriage the focus of their cult pretty much.
I didn't know that anyone in the Osmond family was gay?? Even if he was I wish he had someone to talk to. That is so sad. I agree with one of the threads on here, maybe he felt so alone and didn't feel like he had anyone to open up to. Depression left untreated can be seriously fatal. I pray God to strengthen that family during this difficult time. Also, I didn't know that in the Mormon religion that being well liked was priority---where did that come from?? I never heard of such a thing...
It doesn't matter if the child was gay, straight, married, divorced, single, wealthy, poor, homeless, black, white, red, girl or boy.......it still hurts. Never watched Donnie & Marie. Not my favorite celeb in the world. However, to loose someone in a family is sadding. Rest in peace.
Did anyone else think it was strange that Marie sang and performed the day after her son's funeral?
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I'm kind of repulsed actually. This is what I read... Michael felt alone and unpopular. That is so terrible. No one should feel bad about themselves just because they don't have many friends. Someone needed to shake some sense in to him. 
So extremely depressing. I lived in Salt Lake for three and a half years. Mormons are nice people, but the culture is very different. I am very sad for the whole family.
