All I Want and More

The internet. What a great thing. Everything I want is at my fingertips. If I want to know something I can look it up and have it in front of me in seconds.

Recipe for chicken cutlets…click
Symptoms of swine flu…click
Cancer awareness…click
Hmmm, I know someone who might need help. Suicide prevention…click. That’s not what I wanted…

That’s right. As many of us know, you don’t always get what you're looking for online. If you do, you may get what you want and more. There are great websites out there that advocate suicide awareness, teach suicide prevention, and show how to offer suicidal people support. There are numbers to suicide hotlines that are readily available if a suicidal person is desperately seeking help. These sites could be life savers. This is an aspect of technology that is amazing. Help is attainable.

Unfortunately there are sick people out there who have no concern for the lives of others and find pleasure in people taking their own lives. These deranged people create websites on how to commit suicide. The RIGHT way to commit suicide. A suicidal person may go online seeking help and find “Suicide Methods”. This site may push people over the edge. With the initial thoughts already in their mind, seeing a method in front of them may finalize their decision.

If you think this is bad, there are suicide chat rooms. At first you may think this could help. Suicidal people could find support or find strength in each other. Wrong. A depressed suicidal individual can find someone like William Melchert-Dinkel with a suicide fetish who will provoke them to kill themselves. Not only will he offer people emotional support but step by step instructions on how to take their own lives. This man is under investigation for the suicides of two people. Not only have they found conversations of him persuading people to kill themselves but he asked to watch people take their own lives. This man utilized technology in a new disgusting way.

In 2007 34,598 people took their own lives in the United States. This means that 94 people committed suicide everyday. Suicide leaves families and friends of the suicide victim hurt and without answers. I lost someone who was like my brother to suicide this summer and to think that there is some fucked up person out there that could have provoked him or pushed him over the edge makes me sick.

Technology can be great but it has set backs. The ability to find someone to help you commit suicide…not a win for technology.