I wish we could keep Halloween more on the fun side. One guy in my neighborhood had a fantastic glass hearse pulled by a skeleton horse and it was amazing. That's great. Pumpkins and such, great. Silly-looking ghosts and ghouls, fine. But the hangings bother me for both the reason you mention as well as because all of us know somebody with a loved one who hanged himself. One year a kid was going around with a fake gunshot wound to his head. I begged him NOT to go to a neighbor's house, where the son had shot himself in the head less than a year before.