Channel 4 did a documentary called "Poisoned-Killer in the Post" which touched on the forum, but amazingly didn't paint it in too bad a light. But then again the focus was on Law and making out members are mere helpless victims, with absolutely no free will at all. One of the dad's who lost his suicidal kid and the journo who broke the story (another tantacrul type) turned up on Good Morning Britain and did their best to gaslight everyone into thinking it's actually murder and ignoring all the issues around depression and suicide and what drives someone to that. Happily most logical people saw through all the bull in the youtube comments and pointed that out.
There's talk of SN gaining A LOT of popularity now outside the forum, especially in China. I don't know how true that is or if it's just in a few niche circles. It does seem like the cat might be out of the bag tho, especially with all the extra media attention in the UK. I think a few members are starting to look for alternatives, there is some substance or method a bit similar to SN (KN I think?) but I haven't looked into it yet so I dunno how promising it is as the next "peaceful method" I've just seen it being discussed more in light of how hard SN is to get these days.
Thanks for the summary!
I have been following suicide forums on and off for a few years but never understood the fandom around SN. It seems to work if done right, yes, but the "if done right" emphasis is far stronger than most people think. What was it, 8 hours to a day of fasting, and then a very meticulous ritual of antiemetics, water, more fasting, more water, SN? Only to get exposure to what seems to be a 50/50 chance of you actually dying rather than spending a night with the worst stomach cramps you'll ever have? What if you're overweight or have a slow metabolism, or on the contrary are an athlete with an extraordinary ability of not killing yourself when your body wants to?
With SN being a regulated substance with no trustworthy source distributing to retail customers (everyone thought Kenneth Law was trustworthy until they found out he kept permanent records of all his fucking customers, lmfao), it would probably be simpler, safer and more fool-proof to just get a load of "heroin" from random guys at your local train stations and chug that shit all at once, maybe in combination with antiemetics if you want to make sure.
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Do these people have some kind of twisted sadistic suicide fetish? I can't imagine the staff of a suicide website are actively suicidal, or else they'd have no one to run the website.#
Newfag can't figure out how to properly quote someone in the process of editing an already existing reply, so I'll resort to mentioning you
@Sandshrew this way (hope it works)...
Been active on SS for a decent while. From my experience most people who stay on that site, including the mods, are people who joined out of desperation and somewhere along the way got stuck in a purgatory state of kind of being out of the suicidal mindset but not out enough to have a proper life outside of the site. For them, SS is all (or a significant part of) what they have when it comes to social interaction, so they stay because they simply have no better option. One of my frequent Discord contacts belongs to them, he hates the site but stays active on there because he can't find anything better than it for himself. And I get it, regardless of the average SS user's retardation it really can be a safe haven for a certain type of person. Obviously there are beyond-hope despicable users who sound like broken records and would arguably bring a net value to all parts of society if they just fucking killed themselves already, but that is a minority you can easily overlook.