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Internet to Blame for Suicides in South Wales Last Year?

Romanticizing death not good either

By Vlad Constandes, SEO News Editor

24th of January 2008, 22:11 GMT

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In the long list of police denials, we can now include this one: they have openly said that there is no Internet suicide cult but officers are actively checking the email, online chats and SMS exchanged by the teens who decided that it was all to much to bear. Although taking your own life is a great means of natural selection, when somebody ends up resorting to it, there must be something really wrong. I'm not inventing the wheel, but apparently the police seem to like being redundant as well.

The investigation going on is targeting the Internet as a whole (!) "What we don't know is whether

the Internet is playing a key factor in this," MP Madeleine Moon told Reuters. "What is concerning is that you're getting Internet bereavement walls. That's not going to help anyone." After that, there's been some narrowing and memorial sites have been turned a frowning eye upon. They are not ok, because they romanticize death by giving people the chance to leave pictures and messages for dead friends.

As I said, the police are trying to come up with some electronic evidence that the seven suicides that have happened in 2007 are somehow connected and part of a ritual, so they're thinking of limiting access to some of the sites that people who lost someone in the tragic happenings are accessing.

Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but by limiting the access to a specific array of websites wouldn't make China's communism seem all too familiar? Moon said that in case there's somebody who was traumatized by the deaths, they should seek professional counseling instead of visiting the sites. As far as therapy goes, I think there are two ways to deal with the grief of having lost someone: you can go and talk about it with somebody who you know doesn't give a damn, but knows how to talk to you. The second option would be to get together with people that feel the same as you and help each other out with the pain inside. Tough choice?

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