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gazz
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gazz
Joined: 13 Oct 2008
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[quote]The move comes as the number of such crimes has increased dramatically since actor Ahn Jae-hwan reportedly killed himself using charcoal briquettes last September.[/quote]
FFS- did he BBQ himself to death or eat them?
What a way to go! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Probably carbon monoxide poisoning.
Banning Internet users from talking about suicide is stupid. Getting the media to talk less about it and glorify it less would be helpful. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Another step backwards for Korea. Everyday this place becomes more and more absurd. |
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SHANE02
Joined: 04 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| depression and suicide need to be openly acknowledged and discussed, not hidden and banned from discussion. How stupid. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| SHANE02 wrote: |
| depression and suicide need to be openly acknowledged and discussed, not hidden and banned from discussion. How stupid. |
No, actually the more suicide is publicly discussed, the more of a viable option it seems to people at risk. I think it's called suicide clusters or cluster suicide. This is especially bad in Korea where it is dragged through the headlines, glorified, and often justified. In western newspapers, it's very difficult to find front-page headlines about suicides for fear of triggering copycats.
If someone you know is contemplating suicide, it's best to get them professional help, not acknowledge it and have a mature discussion. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Well, so much for letting adults do and say what they want; censorship is the new freedom! |
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Robot_Teacher
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Location: Robotting Around the World
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 5:25 am Post subject: |
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| This means that suicides will no longer be reported in the news as to save face to maintain image by concealment. Countries, the world's wealthy billionaire elite, and the AP all manipulate what we all know and don't know. It's all a rigged game of politics and economics with this freedom of speech thing getting in the way of their grand master scheme of a robotic drone based humanity under one world order while they live in high luxury to the ignorance of their drone populace serving them. Free speech and democracy is on it's way out, globally and locally everywhere you look. That's robot's prediction of the path were beginning to go down, not just in Korea, but globally as well. It doesn't look good if you're not like really rich for in the future, only the rich have freedom while many more will die fighting them for their freedoms to be reinstated. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Let them ban the word suicide. Those that want to will just make up a new word for it and continue on doing what they're doing.
Here, I'll even help them. Instead of using suicide, call it selficide. Oh no, did I just help the netizens outwit the government censorship board? Oh dear oh dear oh dear... terrible. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Robot_Teacher wrote: |
| This means that suicides will no longer be reported in the news as to save face to maintain image by concealment. Countries, the world's wealthy billionaire elite, and the AP all manipulate what we all know and don't know. It's all a rigged game of politics and economics with this freedom of speech thing getting in the way of their grand master scheme of a robotic drone based humanity under one world order while they live in high luxury to the ignorance of their drone populace serving them. Free speech and democracy is on it's way out, globally and locally everywhere you look. That's robot's prediction of the path were beginning to go down, not just in Korea, but globally as well. It doesn't look good if you're not like really rich for in the future, only the rich have freedom while many more will die fighting them for their freedoms to be reinstated. |
It may be done to save face, but it will almost certainly lower the suicide rate. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Robot_Teacher wrote: |
| This means that suicides will no longer be reported in the news as to save face to maintain image by concealment. |
I wouldn't want them reported either, and I'm not anti-freedom of the press or anything. Reporting suicides simply encourages others to do so. Report one, and you get 2-3 copycats soon after. Censoring the internet for suicide forums and the like I feel is stepping over the line, but as far as REPORTING the suicides that already occur, I don't think they should be--especially the celebrity suicides.
It's kind of like the story Harrison Bergeron, for those who have read it you'll know what I'm talking about. People do these things for the attention, the copycats even moreso. In HB, the media took away the incentive (read: the attention) by reporting the crimes and such, but without the person's name. The stories were reported with names like "Idiot #1" and "Moron #2". Why do something FOR attention if you're not going to GET the attention? |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Kill yourself and receive attention? I wonder if dead celebrities still enjoy the attention they get? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 12:09 am Post subject: |
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| beercanman wrote: |
| Kill yourself and receive attention? |
Facetious? |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| Sure. The logic is all there. Nobody pays attention to me now, but boy, they sure will when I'm dead, and I'll enjoy that. Haha. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:05 am Post subject: |
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| beercanman wrote: |
| Sure. The logic is all there. Nobody pays attention to me now, but boy, they sure will when I'm dead, and I'll enjoy that. Haha. |
Well suicide and suicide attempts are all basically a cry for attention. Considering how much attention the Korean media gives to suicide, this is pretty reasonable to assume. |
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