Addiction to the internet is way more complex as it is way more intellectual. It destroys careers, families, relationships, and characters but, beyond all, may even cause death !!. This is the second death I read about in the last few months related to "Net":
Friday, November 11, 2005; Posted: 3:09 a.m. EST (08:09 GMT)
Friday, November 11, 2005; Posted: 3:09 a.m. EST (08:09 GMT)
(CNN) -- Suzanne Gonzales seemed to have everything going for her. A bubbly 19-year-old with loving parents and good friends, she was also a strong student and earned a science scholarship for college. But everything changed one spring day two years ago, when Suzanne's parents, Mike and Mary Gonzales, received the following e-mail.
"Dear Mom, Dad, and Jennifer, I will make this short as I know. It will be hard to deal with. If you haven't heard by now, I've passed away," the e-mail read.
Alone in a Florida hotel room, just miles from her college apartment, Suzanne methodically prepared and swallowed a lethal cocktail of potassium cyanide, lay down on the bed and died. But Suzanne's case has an unusual twist. She frequented an Internet newsgroup called called ASH, short for Alt.Suicide.Holiday. Members of this news group trade advice on how to commit suicide....
Read one ASH message from a person named "River.", and the full story along with group's reply at http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/04/suicide.internet/index.html
2 comments:
oh my gosh. how sad. but i wonder if she'd have done this anyways. internet might make accessibility to things better, but the intention was there before yo began your search.
Internet is like any other technology carrying its dark side, as stronger as its bright side. I am sure seed of suicide and depression (and we all carry that) was there but somewhere along the browsing it just blossomed into full blown act.
As one Harvard professor was telling us - the side effect of one medicine 'interferon' is that - it turns people brain towards fantasy of - cannibalism.
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