The office issued a thorough statement on its official site to explain the decision — one they made after speaking with mental health and sexual abuse experts, as well as teens who have actually seen the show. OFLC has huge reservations about letting kids under 18 watch the show alone due to its portrayal of suicide and rape. "Hannah’s suicide is presented fatalistically. Her death is represented at times as not only a logical, but an unavoidable outcome of the events that follow. Suicide should not be presented to anyone as being the result of clear headed thinking." 13 Reasons Why has been criticized many times before for ignoring the connection between suicide and mental illness; critics argue that people "often commit suicide because they are unwell, not simply because people have been cruel to them."