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Internet Sites Biased Towards Supporting Suicide
Believe It Or Not, I Care About You writes "According to a new study in the British Medical Journal which examined the search results for various suicide-related search terms, the most common results supported or encouraged suicide. Wikipedia was one of the most prevalent sources of information, particularly on suicide methods, although the Wikimedia Foundation itself does not encourage suicide. Other studies have shown that media coverage has an effect on suicide particularly with respect to influencing the method chosen. Interestingly, this study notes that suicide rates actually decreased with increased Web usage in England, perhaps because support is readily available to anyone who wants it."
I say let people take themselves out of the gene pool. No one should be forced to live and use resources society needs. Society as whole will suffer if a few more people die at their own hands.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
Last year a girl I had known all my life committed suicide using information she had gathered from the web -- she was only 19. Specifically she bought a bottle of 1000 Advil pills and took them all. The information provided on the web indicated that this was one of the best ways of avoiding resuscitation as it causes almost all of your organs to fail and hence your probability of dying 99% with little chance of being saved. After this happened my life went into an emotional free fall. I'll never be the same. While I agree with free speech, I think that access to such information should be limited to those who have sufficient information to prove themselves non-suicidal -- exactly like getting a gun license. I fear though that the realization of an "I'm not suicidal" license is far away -- look at the military : they're recruiting the mentally ill. I believe that such a license ( like a drinking license ) is necessary because suicide is usually the result of psychotic depression -- which was induced by bipolar disorder in this case. When you've gone psychotic your rational mind shuts down and the irrational emotional mind takes control -- basically no one's home. Also, committing suicide is a crime in the U.S. ,although I don't know how the authorities will penalize you when you're dead, so maybe it should be attempted suicide. As such, web sites that disseminate this information are complicit in murder. Fuck them. I wish I could find out where she gathered the Advil advice and crack the skull of whomever put it up.
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