Also remember to join IRC, learn about it here.
Suicide
The act of intentionally killing oneself.
- URL: Unknown
- Location: IRL
- Date: The dawn of time
- Facebook: Unknown
- Twitter: Unknown
- Known For: An hero, Shawn Woolley, Kurt Cobain, Jack Kevorkian, Sylvia Plath, Hunter S. Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Elliott Smith, Phil Ochs, John Kennedy Toole, King of Hearts A.K.A King Henry VIII, CandyJunkie
Summary
Suicide, is a serious IRL issue that causes a huge amount of drama which often extends onto the Internet. When this happens it tends to cause hilarity, hurt, outrage, lulz and huge drama. Many suicides have spawned memes such as an hero.
Suicide has always been a major problem but in recent times it has steadily gained public awareness through such means as the It Gets Better campaign which was released as a response to a spate of suicides by gay teens. These teen suicides are almost always caused by bullying and other school-related drama which is often played out on the internet.
On a few occasions, some dating back decades, suicides have been recorded and even committed on live television. This footage is inevitably uploaded to the internet and depending on the viewer can cause tremendous horror or lulz.
Despite this, suicide really is the last option to take, if at all, since it is the ultimate act of ragequitting, without the option to return to the last checkpoint or load a savegame.
Origins
People have been offing themselves since the dawn of time. It even happened in The Bible.
Current status
Unfortunately suicide happens all the time, most people have been touched by it in some way and it is likely that this will never change.
Whenever somebody threatens to commit suicide on the internet it is customary for everyone present to request it be done on camera.
Facts
- Used for great effect in marketing to angsty teenagers.
- Suicide is an IRL version of GAME OVER.
- According to previous studies, suicide has been lesser in prominence than tobacco-related deaths.
- Someone kills themself about every forty seconds
Images
 Or you could figure out what the smileys are smoking. |
 An option. |
Videos
Related Pages
External Links
 |
This article is a stub. Please help increase its length! |
You can find additional phenomena here.
Explore our other categories for information on different subjects!
