Mmkay. I'mma try not to be rude, or affend you because I'm taking your friend's side... But emo is a 'nickname' for emotional. And maybe you really shouldn't be so quick to judge. That's most people's problems and the reason people go emo in the first place. Usually I would have said that emo is nothing but a style of clothes, But I have realized it's so much more. And the dezire to die comes with hurt the person is feeling. And if this kid is your friend, the You should know I'm just going to tell you what you already know... That you should figure out what is so wrong with him. Maybe then you can pass judgement on weather it is false depression.( If there's such a thing.) Maybe he had his heart broken. Girls are just as bad as guys when it comes to that kind of shit. Weather we realize it or not. But. Either way. Petioning this is not going to change his opinion on life, nor is it going to make him take of some expression of his feeling. The only way for you to do this is get his pas...