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i'm in a sticky situation and i was curious if any of you had advice... my friend (kate we will call her) here at college had a friend from high school kill herself a few weeks ago. apparently the friend called kate the night she did it, kate silenced her phone because she was studying. so this in itself had kate pretty shaken up when she found out (understandably)

the big problem now is that the friend's mother (who is apparently a b*tch) and most of her high school friends are all calling her and telling her that it's her fault her friend is dead. for some reason it seems that everyone is against her for not picking up her phone, and no one who knew the friend seems to think it WASN'T her fault. this is what's really hitting her hard... it's been several weeks and a day hasn't gone by that someone hasn't called her to ask her why the heck she didn't pick up the phone or tell her that she's a horrible person for not doing so. i told her to just stop answering it, but obviously she feels like if she doesn't answer her phone now the same thing might happen.

as a friend who doesn't know any of these people, what do i do? i want to tell all these people to back off, but obviously that isn't an option, and she isn't doing much to defend herself, she just keeps taking it. i told her that her friends are being jerks and she needs to not let it get to her, but that's much easier said than done. how do you help a friend getting assaulted by people you have no contact with (nor really want contact with). i'm stumped whenever she brings it up.

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