{"id":3638,"date":"2008-11-20T21:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2008-11-20T21:19:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:19:59","slug":"your-life-and-death-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/11\/20\/your-life-and-death-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Your life — and death — online"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are so many people spending their lives in front of video cameras — not just on sites like YouTube but on thousands of discussion forums and chat rooms across the Internet — that the surprising thing isn’t how many people choose to die in front of their webcams, it’s how few. Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee has the story of a young man<\/a> who was talking to other members of a chat-room on a bodybuilding forum and said he had taken an overdose of medication, posted a suicide note and then collapsed on his bed. Several concerned viewers called police, who broke down the door<\/a> and found the young man, and friends later confirmed that he was dead. A tragic end to a young life<\/a>, all captured on film. It used to be that killing yourself on camera meant doing it on the evening news — when I was in journalism school, I remember a state official<\/a> in Pennsylvania putting a gun to his head during a press conference and pulling the trigger, and our class debating whether TV shows should have run the film. Now anyone can have a camera, and broadcast their death to as many people as choose to watch.<\/p>\n

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There are so many people spending their lives in front of video cameras — not just on sites like YouTube but on thousands of discussion forums and chat rooms across the Internet — that the surprising thing isn’t how many people choose to die in front of their webcams, it’s how few. Liz Gannes at … <\/p>\n

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