AAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't scream out loud a lot, in fact, I almost never do it. But today I did. Because today I opened the newspaper (the better one we subscribe to) and what's there?!? Remember Dan and that girl? The kids who killed themselves. Oh, yeah, it actually did take this long for our newspaper to pick up that news.

Not only did they whine about it, but they also got the facts wrong. Jesus.

The only good thing they did was that someone realized that internet had probably nothing to do with them killing themselves.

The story doesn't mention ash by the name. I guess they figure it's safer that way, but they do talk about it like it was a place where people are encouraged to kill themselves, where suicide is thought of as something one should do. I understand that none of the reporters have probably never been to ash and will never be. What is wrong with the story is that there is a pic of some pro-suicide website's mainpage. Why can't anybody believe that alt.suicide.holiday is PRO-CHOICE? Not pro-suicide, not anti-suicide, nothing but pro-choice. A.s.h. is informative because everyone is entitled to know the facts before they decide. It gives information on how to kill oneself because why wouldn't it? There's nothing wrong with killing oneself. It's a decision everyone makes for themselves, and that's the way it should be.
Everyone has the right to do what they want to with their own life.

As far as I know their suicide (Dan and the girl, what was her name?) had nothing to do with the internet. I saw Dan's message where he asked someone to kill himself with him. I've seen many of them and I never have stopped wondering why anyone would want to kill themselves with someone they don't know (or, in general, with anyone else). I think suicide is highly private act and I wouldn't want anyone do it with me.
However, as long as I've read a.s.h. it has helped me tremendously. It's very relieving to know that there are others who feel the way I do. It doesn't make me kill myself. No one else can kill me but myself (unless it's a question of homicide instead of suicide). No one can convince me that I should kill myself unless I want them to (and I have doubts even that wouldn't work).

And there's the impulse-factor. It's always mentioned when it comes to suicides of the young. It's like young people weren't capable of thinking and considering their actions. What is said in the article is, however, that there are usually long-term troubles hiding in the background anyway, no matter how impulsive the act of suicide itself seems to be.

I'm tired. I wish people stopped whining about this. What does it have to do with anything if they killed themselves? Why is suicide always labelled as terrible and wrong and something one should never do? Why can't people just let others live and die as they please? Why do they always have to think they know better than anyone else? Why?
Please, someone, just tell me why.

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