cybersuicide

cybersuicide
a) Suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.

Reports such as these have underscored public health concerns about a cybersuicide epidemic...

b) The deliberate destruction of ones own online persona.

There are also very dark chapters that have opened with the disturbing phenomenon of "cybersuicide," in which strangers meet online, form group suicide pacts, and then meet in person to execute their macabre plan together.


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  • Alt.suicide.holiday — (a.s.h, ASH or ash) is a Usenet newsgroup, now [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.suicide.holiday/ accessible] via Google Groups. Its original purpose was to discuss the relationship between suicide rates and holiday seasons. However, it has… …   Wikipedia

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