[ninjahandfriend]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

Not really according to this thread. Maybe I should learn not to be so oversensitive.

I tend to doubt online suicides without corroboration, much like all the supposedly terminally ill people who manage to post for nigh on a decade after their diagnoses and are still going strong.

[GeoBa92]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

Do you lot think this guy was bullied on Twitter? I know he killed himself yesterday.
https://twitter.com/#!/shebby123

Apparently his name was Shoaib Nadeem and was 17 years old. Jumped from a car park on Monday.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/t...7319-31160351/

And

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/t...7319-31168174/

It reports as well that a few people were goading him to jump. Absolutely sickening.

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

Originally Posted by ninjahandfriend

I tend to doubt online suicides without corroboration, much like all the supposedly terminally ill people who manage to post for nigh on a decade after their diagnoses and are still going strong.

Well there's a link here about it, but could be someone else unrelated to that page I guess.
I was in the area on Monday and noticed the police closing the road but I thought someone had just robbed the Today's shop again.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/w...5233-31161302/

[ninjahandfriend]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

Well there's a link here about it, but could be someone else I guess, although loads of people are saying it isn't. I was in the area on Monday and noticed the police closing the road but I thought someone had just robbed the Today's shop again.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/w...5233-31161302/

That's a shame, although the twitter account does read like a person with issues.

[Pet1986]

Originally Posted by GeoBa92

Apparently his name was Shoaib Nadeem and was 17 years old. Jumped from a car park on Monday.

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/t...7319-31160351/

And

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/t...7319-31168174/

It reports as well that a few people were goading him to jump. Absolutely sickening.

That is so disgusting, his poor parents.

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

It'd be good if there was something you could do when someone threatens suicide online. There are national reporting sites for scams and illegal porn, it's a shame there's nothing similar for that.
All you can do if it's not local to your police department is hope they don't and are messing around I suppose, but a few are real. Even if they are in your country you can hardly go ringing 999 every time somebody deletes their Instagram can you?

[d3nium]

Originally Posted by Sophie ~Oohie~

It'd be good if there was something you could do when someone threatens suicide online. There are national reporting sites for scams and illegal porn, it's a shame there's nothing similar for that.
All you can do if it's not local to your police department is hope they don't and are messing around I suppose, but a few are real. Even if they are in your country you can hardly go ringing 999 every time somebody deletes their Instagram can you?

People threaten to kill themselves online all the time. Attention seekers usually.