Depressed Horse Commits Suicide

Artax, the beloved horse of Atreyu took his own life while traveling through the swamps of sadness in Fantasia recently. Creatures with depressive disorders have long been warned of the swamps ability to amplify suicidal ideology, leading to immobilazation and eventualy complete submersion. "He let the place get to him," explained the bereaved. "I guess he just started thinking about how screwed up things have been around here lately, plus there's this whole approaching nothingness thing. I think about stuff like that too, I just don't think about it when I'm in the effing swamps of sadness." When pressed further, Arteyu, a great warrior, claimed he did everything in his power to talk his friend out of his existential dilemma. "I thought he was joking at first, I even tried to laugh it off, but old Eyore just kept sinking. I was like, ‘You have to try, you have to care!' For me… I'm you're friend. I love you! I even called him a ‘Stupid Horse,' something I've never said before. I told him I wouldn't give up and I didn't, but he sure as hell did." Services will be held on Shell Mountain close to where the incident took place. The grieving are advised to travel there by Luck Dragon, giant bat, racing snail or even rock tricycle as the swamps have proven time and again with occurrences such as this, to be dangerous by foot or hoof. "It's a NEVERENDING STORY admitted the ruler of Fantasia, a nameless Childlike Empress, "Lots of folks go into that swamp, not so many come out."