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A 19-year old MySpace member committed suicide on a live self-broadcast

Posted by PANDONG • 11/22/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: children, death, family, life, Parents

Hi everyone,

In case you haven't heard about it, a 19-year old MySpace member committed suicide in front of his audience during a live self-broadcast session on a forum.

The news is now getting popular at Digg and other social sites. I made a post that will lead to the links the detailed information.

In addition, I included some tips on how to spot and stop future cases. Although suicide is an unpredictable event, the clues provided may help somehow.

Here is my post, and I hope we can learn somehow.

Thanks.

fatherblogger.com/2008/11/22/the-latest-online-suicide-victim-and-how-to-st...

User Comments

11/22/08

lyndsay82

OH that's tragically shocking...poor guy, and the audience..

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11/22/08

eyesonyouu

strange let me check!!

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11/22/08

harleyblues

he took and over dose according to the news...

and people on the net were egging him on to committ suicide also! that is messed up. some were even laughing about it.

his camera rolled for 12 hours while noone did a thing, call for help, the police, not a thing..

truly sad

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1. 11/22/08
  
  PANDONG
  
  Yes, and it's because they did not take the warning seriously. That is according to reports though. The original forum thread was already deleted though.
2. 11/22/08
  
  rmaxwell142
  
  That's messed up...
3. 11/22/08
  
  Sylvia
  
  12 hours and not a soul did a thing???!!!
  
  What horrible horrible world we live in!!
4. 6 days ago
  
  Kaja
  
  That's the world we live in.
11/22/08

CrankyChick

I am not against suicide but why do you have to do it infront of others?

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11/22/08

dosox

Poor guy he just don't know what life is.. I am against all suicide.. Glad he did it

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6 days ago

JewelsDesigns

I think suicide is in now a days (or something). In a local high school, there were 8 suicides last year, and in another school (after the first schools tragedies came out in the news), 3 other students committed suicide. These kids are not just taking a handful of pills, their hanging themselves (in closets, railings, ceiling beams, etc...). They don't understand that death is permanent, you can't get it back. One girl in the first school was pregnant. When I read that in the paper, I cried like a baby. It was heart breaking. Life is never that bad that you have to end it. If it's bad get some help, tell somebody. I can't imagine coming home and finding my baby hanging dead in a closet. It horrible.

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6 days ago

ThinkingUhuru

What an attention seeking maneuver (suicide usually is). It tells me that today's kids have a whole hell of a lot of hurt going on. It's as if today's younger generation doesn't feel there's anything to hope for.

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6 days ago

Kaja

Edit: deleted.

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6 days ago

acousticguitarist

australia has the highest male youth suicide in the world, i can't work out why

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