There is a new type of facebook death-Facebook Suicide- death announcing your funeral by suicide note posting on facebook. Suicide is tragic no matter where and when it happens But posting a suicide note on Facebook Profile-is a a strange way to announce your death and impending funeral. It shows that social media is an inadeaquate form and no substitute for human contact.
A recent Suicide Note was posted on a subscribers profile.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.– Emergency officials rushed to an apartment in St. George this afternoon, after they received word a man claimed he was going to kill himself in a post to his Facebook.com profile.
via www.silive.com
“I can’t go on anymore. I just hung myself.” An unnamed man in the St. George neighborhood of Staten Island put this and other disturbing notes on his Facebook page this afternoon, the Staten Island Advance reports. Friends saw the notes and, unable to reach him by phone, contacted authorities, who sent EMT workers to his home. But it was too late — the man was found dead, apparently by his own hand.
His notes indicate he was worried that he was going to be fired, and had some difficulty managing his psych medications (“When I take my meds I’m manic when I don’t I’m severely depressed like I am now”).
Advance commenters are less playful than usual about this one. “If this guy had some human company, instead of his computer,” says one, “he may still be alive. via- Staten Island man threatens suicide on Facebook, goes through with it // Current
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