Gotta love Google maps

[ManWithNoName]

Pick a city where you are and type in "places to commit suicide near me".

In the case of Vienna, Austria for example I have a plethora of locales to choose—from the Steinhof church, to the tree garden, the Sigmund Freud Museum, to Water World—to simply name just a few.

Well ain't technology just great :)

 

[charlottewilts]

Vienna sounds like a lovely place to die! the Ferris Wheel would definitely be a fun spot!

it doesn't work for my city, sadly... but nice find!

 

[Epsilon0]

Water world? What are you to do there, apart from feel all warm and fuzzy looking at the penguins?

Death by cuteness, perhaps?

 

[ManWithNoName]

Water world? What are you to do there, apart from feel all warm and fuzzy looking at the penguins?

Death by cuteness, perhaps?

These places are chosen by the algorithms though I doubt it has any understanding of the phrase "places to commit suicide near me". There will probably come one day when ai handles Google maps and in the future such a request to find a locale will automatically send the viewer to a quasi Orwellian message saying "The department of well being is on its way, we know where you are please remain in the current place where you are at..."

 

[Epsilon0]

These places are chosen by the algorithms though I doubt it has any understanding of the phrase "places to commit suicide near me". There will probably come one day when ai handles Google maps and in the future such a request to find a locale will automatically send the viewer to a quasi Orwellian message saying "The department of well being is on its way, we know where you are please remain in the current place where you are at..."

And then you would jump out the window of your 300 story building to escape the agents, and land on a hoovering taxi driven by a two-headed alien. Sort of like they do in Star Wars. Yeah, I can see that happening, haha!

Joke aside, I am afraid you are all too right. Well, look on the bright side: at least we won't be around to be injected with kallocain and answer to The Department of Well Being och Eternal Happiness.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

Pick a city where you are and type in "places to commit suicide near me".

In the case of Vienna, Austria for example I have a plethora of locales to choose—from the Steinhof church, to the tree garden, the Sigmund Freud Museum, to Water World—to simply name just a few.

Well ain't technology just great :)

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That's kinda funny and I didn't even think about that. I wonder if the algorithm is using actual suicide data to pick these spots or if it's pulling some other data.

Could always be a trend setter and pick somewhere no one else has to add a new spot to the map!

 

[Moonicide]

I had no idea that was even a thing. Damn, Google really knows what is up.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Nothing near me, kinda could hvae done with the inspiration, but I have my place set already, its just take 3 for me!

 

[HereToday]

I'm on vacation so this isn't in my country but I tried it and one of the places that comes up translates to 'mouth of hell'. How fitting! It's a bunch of cliffs with an amazing view. If I had the guts to jump I'd do it there

 

[MysticPerception]

Unfortunately it just brings up a bunch of places for mental health for me. I guess typing in suicide just triggered it's algorithm for this person needs help. Though I already know of a location anyway I'm not going to bother going to it. I intend to either die in my bed all warm and cozy or just drive out to the middle of some woods where no one will ever find my corpse. It was fun to try using google maps that way though.

 

[Science Is Scary]

Heh, that's a really interesting idea to me, Man.

I wonder if there are already tools that could be used to find nearby places with high elevation?

If not, creating one out of the Google Maps API and other data sources like OpenStreetMap might be possible.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Heh, that's a really interesting idea to me, Man.

I wonder if there are already tools that could be used to find nearby places with high elevation?

If not, creating one out of the Google Maps API and other data sources like OpenStreetMap might be possible.

Thanks for sharing.

You're welcome - good question about using the system to find high elevation places—though if anyone Google side found out, they would stop it.

 

[Lefty]

Well that is certainly interesting. Though I'd be cautious of using Google, they've been known to harvest data and use it for not your best interest, let's say. Though DuckDuckGo doesn't have any feature like Google Maps as far as I know. Still be cautious.

 

[cosmicpixiedust]

I uh..hope this is incorrect.

 

[TAW122]

And then you would jump out the window of your 300 story building to escape the agents, and land on a hoovering taxi driven by a two-headed alien. Sort of like they do in Star Wars. Yeah, I can see that happening, haha!

Joke aside, I am afraid you are all too right. Well, look on the bright side: at least we won't be around to be injected with kallocain and answer to The Department of Well Being och Eternal Happiness.

That is a bit unsettling and I hope this would never come, but I fear it is inevitable at some point in our lifetime.

Well that is certainly interesting. Though I'd be cautious of using Google, they've been known to harvest data and use it for not your best interest, let's say. Though DuckDuckGo doesn't have any feature like Google Maps as far as I know. Still be cautious.

Yeah, I would not put CTB related stuff into Google apps, especially those that trace your phone or stuff. I also use Incognito Mode when typing CTB related stuff. One could never be too careful when it comes to covering your tracks and what not.

 

[ManWithNoName]

I uh..hope this is incorrect.

Funny what the algorithms will come up with.

 

[faraway_beach]

I don't want to give Google my data, and DuckDuckGo maps didn't show anything. I found a couple of articles about "suicide tourism" in my city, though. Apparently one in ten people who CTB here came from out of town specifically for that purpose.