[net.suicide] Why?

crose (06/08/82)

 Does anyone who is going to commit suicide post a letter here?
What is this group for? I wasn't on this machine when it came
into being, so would someone please inform why it exists?
           Andy Rose (...mhuxt!crose)

bj (06/08/82)

This was an active newsgroup containing some almost serious
information on suicides and a lot of bad jokes.  The original
contributors seem to have died off.
					B.J.
					(decvax!yale-comix!herbison)
					(Herbison@Yale)

rhm (06/08/82)

The newsgroup was once quite active.  However, membership seems to
keep dropping off...

tookman@cwruecmp.UUCP (05/03/83)

	A couple of weeks ago, an old friend of mine committed
suicide and it got me thinking of, among other things, suicide
notes.

	Dave was always a quiet guy but he seemed to enjoy
life alot.  And aside from the fact that he was confused about
one thing in particular, I cant imagine why he chose suicide.
And he left NO NOTE.  This bothered me as I'm sure it bothered
others, because we were all a little surprised by this.

	My question is this...what would be the reason for
not leaving a note?  I would think that they would want others
to know what was bothering them.  Even if they couldn't discuss
it with someone while they were alive, wouldn't they want to
tell SOME ONE?  (I know that they are not acting rationally in
the first place)  One lady I know wrote letters to all her
children, her sister and her husband and told them what was
bothering her and to rest assured it was nothing they did.
(They found her before she did any damage to herself)
Anyway, I'm curious to know what everyone else thinks of
suicide notes.  Post your replys to the net or mail directly
to me.

	Thanks...kathy

decvax!cwruecmp!tookman