This is disturbing:
A father-of-two hanged himself live over the internet in Britain’s first ‘cyber suicide’.
Kevin Whitrick, 42, took his life after being goaded by dozens of chatroom users from across the world who initially believed he was play acting.
But as they watched in horror, Mr Whitrick climbed onto a chair, smashed through a ceiling and then hanged himself with a piece of rope.
I don’t know which is more disturbing, that he hanged himself online, or that his audience cheered him on.
Another user who did not wish to be named said: “When Kevin stepped off the chair and was left dangling, the mood in the chatroom changed and people began to realise what they had just seen.
I suppose it’s something that these amoral morons were horrified when they realized what they’d seen was real, but what kind of sick SOB would be entertained by watching “simulated” suicide? Of course, if you call it “performance art,” then you can get a grant to hang yourself in Times Square. All the cultural elite with tastefully applaud as you swing from the rope, you’d get live coverage on NPR, and a multi-page glowing review in the NYT.
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I only read the headline to this story and had not seen the details. Now I’m sorry that I read them. Call me Mary Poppins but I prefer not to know about that stuff. I know it’s there but I don’t want to know about it.