Father dissuades his child from committing suicide with touching text message

A screenshot of a text message conversation between father and child has received an overwhelming amount of attention for its heartfelt conclusion, as the father dissuades his distraught child from wanting to die.

The viral text message image was uploaded via the Naver online community under the title, "Rather than proud, moved." The uploader is a student who texted his/her father after doing poorly on an exam last year.

In the text conversation, the student apologizes for the bad exam results, saying, "Dad I'm sorry." He/she adds, "If I die, I have no regrets," indicating that he/she's having some depressing thoughts.

The father is quick to bat those thoughts away as he responds, "You're going to die over just an exam? You should live and when you come home, Dad will give you a big hug."

The 2015 College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was given just this past November 13, and some students were devastated by the results. While some threatened to commit suicide, others went ahead and followed through with the act, leaving behind grieving families and a nation in shock with the youth's obsession over exam scores.

With this in mind, netizens have commented that the poster is lucky to have loving, supporting parents, saying, "A country that makes an exam result... more important than your life�," and, "Although he/she stated he/she would die without knowing his/her parents' feelings, he/she is [now] a happy person. Because he/she is a person who has people that wait for him/her no matter his/her test result�."

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