Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Japan's Internet 'Suicide Clubs' - BBC News
[Related to "Another Mass Suicide Suspected in Japan" below, but from the point of view of potential suicides]
... "Last night I was up all night," said Naoki, smiling again, "talking online to this woman who really - I mean really - wants to die. She asked me to do it with her today, but I said I couldn't because I had this television crew coming to see me. So she said we can do it after they've gone."
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The message boards are littered with personal ads like: "I have pills and charcoal briquettes - I'm looking for someone to die with," and "I'm 23 and want to die. I can travel anywhere."
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"Well, I'm depressed - and that's a disease," he said. "But to be honest, I think I've always been interested in killing myself." ..."I'd never thought about doing it in a group before," he continued. "But then I visited a website and thought - ah, if I join this I won't have to go through with it on my own. It's like crossing the road when the traffic light is red... it's not so scary when you're with others." ...
"There are some vicious sites which really encourage people to die, and when you get in a group there's a momentum which makes it hard to stop - people become irrational. But my site is not like that. I started it because I had tried twice to kill myself. "I think it has saved my life - because it has enabled me to open up about things online. And I believe it can help others too." ...
[Related to "Another Mass Suicide Suspected in Japan" below, but from the point of view of potential suicides]
... "Last night I was up all night," said Naoki, smiling again, "talking online to this woman who really - I mean really - wants to die. She asked me to do it with her today, but I said I couldn't because I had this television crew coming to see me. So she said we can do it after they've gone."
...
The message boards are littered with personal ads like: "I have pills and charcoal briquettes - I'm looking for someone to die with," and "I'm 23 and want to die. I can travel anywhere."
...
"Well, I'm depressed - and that's a disease," he said. "But to be honest, I think I've always been interested in killing myself." ..."I'd never thought about doing it in a group before," he continued. "But then I visited a website and thought - ah, if I join this I won't have to go through with it on my own. It's like crossing the road when the traffic light is red... it's not so scary when you're with others." ...
"There are some vicious sites which really encourage people to die, and when you get in a group there's a momentum which makes it hard to stop - people become irrational. But my site is not like that. I started it because I had tried twice to kill myself. "I think it has saved my life - because it has enabled me to open up about things online. And I believe it can help others too." ...
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