The Internet as a path to suicide

June 7, 2007

Scary stuff from Korea:

From their nondescript sixth-floor office, Kim Hee Joo and five other social workers troll the Internet to combat a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Web to trade tips about suicide, and in some cases to form suicide pacts.



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{ 1 comment }

1 Xmas June 10, 2007 at 5:13 pm

What? You’ve never heard of alt.suicide.holiday?

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.suicide.holiday/about

Google’s archive only goes back to 1990, the newsgroup is a few years older than that.

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