How did you first hear about / find your way to SanctionedSuicide? (2nd poll)

  • The BBC

    Votes: 72 3.2%
  • The New York Times

    Votes: 194 8.5%
  • Tantacrul's YouTube video

    Votes: 952 41.8%
  • A forum or social media platform (facebook, twitter, etc)

    Votes: 266 11.7%
  • Searching for methods

    Votes: 805 35.3%
  • Other news or media

    Votes: 98 4.3%
  • Wikipedia

    Votes: 131 5.7%
  • From a friend

    Votes: 68 3.0%
  • Fix the 26 or Stop Sanctioned Suicide

    Votes: 21 0.9%
  • Other sources - please leave a comment

    Votes: 137 6.0%

  • Total voters
    2,280
real human being

real human being

full of broken thoughts
Jan 28, 2022
213
Please select up to two choices.

The 1st edition of this poll was posted a little over half a year ago. Given that the site is currently getting a lot of attention due to the recent BBC article, it was thought that a new poll would be more representative of recent and current members.
 
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FuneralCry

FuneralCry

Just wanting some peace
Sep 24, 2020
38,938
It's hard to remember as it was a few years ago in my case, I must had been searching for suicide method related information.
 
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RedHates

RedHates

Professional Victim
Jun 21, 2023
127
tantacrul's video showed up in my feed. i found it interesting and decided to check this place out.
 
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Coffeehead

Member
Oct 16, 2023
30
I was searching up methods and found the New York Times article
 
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SoftSense

SoftSense

New Member
Oct 24, 2023
2
I got recommended Tantacrul's video and after a bit of searching found a link to this place.
 
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princexhhn

princexhhn

call me prince
Sep 26, 2023
109
tantacruls video led me here! Ive actually, beforehand, already been on sites such as lostallhope. not someone who goes on online forums much so its no wonder i didnt find this place myself, and not a ton of media coverage for it here (SEA) either. or so ive seen. hard to find something when you dont know what you're looking for. in the video, tantacrul used a different name but kept the initials SS. it only took searching it up, the first link was already a post from a user here! i stopped watching the video after like 3 mins or so. maybe the database or whatever saw that i frequent the "suicide" topic and suggested that video in my youtube LOL.
 
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razorblade

razorblade

Member
Aug 21, 2023
23
Mine was through Wikipedia I can't remember exactly what I was doing I think I was either looking at things to do with CTB and this got recommend or I was looking for a forum
 
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natthebrat

natthebrat

only help i want is with ctb
Jul 9, 2023
169
I googled "pro-suicide forum" and came across an article about a site not mentioned in the article by name, but which I assume was this one. So then, I searched Duckduckgo with the same term, since the results there are less filtered, and came across this site.
 
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nozomu

nozomu

Global Mod // will i wiN my recovery arc
Nov 28, 2022
1,092
The New York Times!!! I searched "how to end your own life responsibly," this result was on the 2nd or 3rd page, and I skimmed the article for the site name or any clues. Within 8 minutes of making that search, I was on SaSu and registering!
 
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Duality

Harmony in Duality
May 27, 2023
170
I'll copy/paste my answer from the first poll. I found out about this site around when the SS subreddit was taken down. I am happy to see that it is still up.
 
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CrystallicEyes

CrystallicEyes

Living as a fraud
Oct 24, 2023
14
Tantacrul's video & NY Times; SaSu was pretty easy to find, due to Tantacrul's 'disguised wordings' of the site in his video.
 
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Forever Sleep

Earned it we have...
May 4, 2022
9,883
I think it's a shame the first poll closed- I would have thought a running pole would be more useful- people may not vote twice and Tantacrul's efforts were resulting in nearly up to 1000 new members according to that. I'm glad your poll doesn't have an expiration.

For me though- I was searching for methods and came across The New York Times article. I'm too old to be recommended Tantacrul in my feed I suspect. I wonder what the age range is of the majority of the Tantacrul referals are. My guess would be mainly under 24. Although, the amount of 18 year olds that suddenly appeared after that was staggering. Ironic- I suspect at least half of us found the site via media condemning it.
 
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haibiantou

haibiantou

Member
Oct 5, 2021
42
Explaining my vote for 'other': I had a friend jump from Beachy Head, and was googling stuff about Beachy Head and suicide when this site came up. I got accepted on my third application because the first two times I didn't explain in enough detail about my own suicidal ideation.
 
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HighFlight

HighFlight

Global Mod
Jun 28, 2023
657
Ironically, I stumbled upon the Fix the 26 group. It came up in a Google news feed regarding some of the proposed changes to internet security and responsibility around user-generated content.
 
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riamu

riamu

walking waste of bandages
Jan 5, 2023
45
i heard a vague mention of 'pro-suicide' forums on a news article and went digging from there. i can't remember how exactly i found the link here but i know the mention of a pro-suicide forum was what sparked me to look
 
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bret217

bret217

Member
Oct 25, 2023
14
I've had some friends talk about this site. We sort of have an understanding that if any of us suddenly disappear we'll know why. We all have one form or another of severe enduring illness, we'd rather have options to opt out at some point. That being said, I'm sure I had heard of this forum a few times before as well.
 
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Agon321

Agon321

I use google translate
Aug 21, 2023
1,547
completely by accident last year. I was looking for a suitable method for myself and this forum must have come up at some point.
 
I'mGoingUnder

I'mGoingUnder

Member
Dec 14, 2022
9
I heard about it on Reddit when the original subreddit was banned. I do not remember what it was called, though.
 
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Soulful

I feel empty
Oct 25, 2023
10
I've heard about this site from Tantacrul's video. At first I was outraged by the things I heard, because I hate the idea of someone taking sexual pleasure in another person't suicide. At the same time though, as a suicidal person myself, the idea of a site which offers actual answers to so many questions I wanted to ask was intriguing and I ended up browsing the forum a couple of times when I felt really hopeless. Now it's my go-to place to lurk whenever I have thoughts I can't talk to anyone about without upsetting them.
If Tantacrul truly thinks this site is as bad as he says, he definitely should have at the very least actually hidden the name, which he did not do. He literally said the acronym of the actual name of this forum. It was ridiculously easy to find my way here just by watching that video and typing details he shared there in Google.
I don't know if this site's existence is moral. I don't care at this point. Sure, I still don't want anyone taking sick pleasure in my death, but in the end, that possibility is far outweighed by the idea of eternal non-feeling.
I'm probably rambling, so I'll end this post here. But I'm happy I've found this place. It brings me peace of mind to know that there are safe ways to end this life. That I don't have to take a shot in the dark and risk surviving with permanent brain damage, which is my biggest fear and the biggest thing that is still keeping me from ending it in the worst times.
Have a nice night.
 
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Unhumanly.

Unhumanly.

Recovery are not the winner.
Feb 24, 2023
256
subreddit, and the other alternative site after the subreddit banned, I think it was saidit, but I was only a lurker at a time
 
LifeisDark

LifeisDark

Member
Jul 5, 2023
20
I came across Tantacruel's video one day, and after watching it, decided to check out the site, realized he twisted it to be some type of evil place, and within the hour had an account and settled in. So thanks Tantacruel!
 
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deathbydragon

deathbydragon

take me with you
Mar 17, 2022
189
Wish there was an option for people who used the old subreddit.
 
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Snowstorm

Snowstorm

Can you see me?
Oct 23, 2023
27
tantacrul's video is the literal only place i had ever heard of this place, and even though he didn't mention the site's name so people wouldn't seek it out, it really backfired by the looks of it. he's the only reason i'm here
 
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regular ferret

regular ferret

I can see a way out
Oct 27, 2023
16
I watch bbc news all day pretty much and the other day they just kept running the story about this site, if they hadn't included the owners name, I would never have found it. I've been searching for a place like this for years
 
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aikoelis6

aikoelis6

Member
Dec 9, 2019
22
searching for methods, this was a few years ago. it took me about 2 days of scouring the internet before i found this site.

i can't say im surprised by the amount of people who came here from tantacruls video. the effect he wanted that video to have is (clearly) not paying off. it is not as bad here as he made it out to be.
 
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uselessness

uselessness

Who tf cares about being controversial if I'll die
Jul 21, 2023
15
Well, if you try hard enough to tell people to not do something, they do it. Tantacrul fucked up if he wanted to stop us from using this site. By pure coincidence I was in a dark time back then. I thought things could get better, but nope. Here we are now!
 
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Aergia

Aergia

Mage
Jun 20, 2023
527
I used to search for methods on duckduckgo, and during one of these searches I came across a hit piece on SS— I can't remember which news site it was from, possibly NYT. But the piece obviously left SS unnamed, so I just searched "suicide forum" and the first result was the wikipedia page for this site.
 
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𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆

𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘆

I'm an idiot sandwich.
Oct 28, 2023
197
I've been feeling very low for a while and so I was watching a lot of mental health / ctb related videos on YT. I got Tantacrul's video recommended on my fyp. I opened it and something finally clicked. I've been looking for a place like this for a long time - a place where I belong. And that's how I got here.
 
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niknod

Member
Oct 28, 2023
10
I read a Daily Mail article condemning this website but lazy journalism copied SS's note about UK privacy laws word for word so this website was very easy to find.

 
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Neogoloid

Neogoloid

Crush me until there’s nothing left
Oct 28, 2023
200
I found out about it while trying to find info online about partial hanging.
 
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