4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

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I just *have* to comment on this.....

Goth is a sub-culture that very few actually understand. In reality it has very little (if even anything) to do with death and blood and all that mumbo but that's what all the wannabes think and the wannabes are those who let themselves get known by the world, so to speak. Therefor - the world in general has the wrong idea of what a goth really is, because frankly - 90% of "goths" aren't really goths at all.

Being a "real" goth has to do with how you look at life and death (which is far from the *popular* themes) and how your mind works.
I say "Goth" and you (not pointed to anyone in particular, just as in general) think black clothes, dyed hair death-metal music blasting...
Sure, many goths do choose to present themselves this way, but as the *real* culture states - you are free to do whatever you wish, no bars held.
Ok, so maybe wearing pink and yellow pigtails, listening to Britney Spears classifies you as un-goth as you can possibly be - heh, think again - if the overall mentality is there (accepting, respecting and daring to live) this individual can fall within the lines of being a goth.

Goth is, as just said - a state of mind! All the people running around talking about death with their *How sweet the pain is killing my tortured spirit*-rant don't even know what it's about, let alone are they *real* goths.

And this I DO direct to those who have spoken on the subject here - Lashing out at this individual to begin with and then continuing to state how naïve and "stupid" ALL goths are is just as uninformed as the original poster's perspective.

You may look at me any way you wish and think what you like, but this needed to be stated. I've read the comments on how tired you in the business of caring for others are of being misjudged and "assumed" to be tyrants just havin' a laugh with the poor people that need help. Believe you me - goths are just as tired of being thought to be nothing but lazy, death-obsessed vampire-wannabes!

...Amarae - No, there isn't a book. We keep pestering him to make one. Maybe ... someday ... we can always hope and dream.

Is there a book yet on all the info and pictures you've compiled?

yo, dis was my midnight hangout. you can catch a good show once in a may evening at 3am in this theater. if the candle has moved, possibly been turned upside down or across the room, then you know someone else has visited. love this building.

Wandered these obscence places and once got lost when I did window pane, remember?

This was not the stairways to the stars this was the stairway to nether land.

Virginia,

No, nothing like that I've heard of where I have worked.

Lynne, I have to wonder if any of the patients ever accidentally wandered to the morgue and were permanently traumatized by this? Has this ever happened anywhere you have worked? Perhaps a morbid thought but my morbid mind just has to wonder.

Nice trip around the grounds, brings backs many wonderful memories and a few horrific also. A peice of the past that is about to come to an end, thankyou my talented friend.

Female employees home.

Dangerous but fantastic shot.

Used to cost ten dollars for ten meals, nice deal,eh? Five bucks a week for a room in the employees home.

great

i would just like to say that i agree with lynne post.......i hate goth-fags.......it really isnt a laughing matter

now for me its a different story, i have grown up around death and morgues...my aunt is a trauma nurse and my dad is still a mortition.....i have seen some very interesting and some very horrific things concerning death.....i dont drool over death..... i embrace it and set out to learn everything about it...... which is why i am following in my fathers footsteps.....

thank you lynne for making that valid point evident!

~mary~