I probably won't disable mine, as I don't want to be tied to a possibly identifying date of death. I will instead destroy all pathways back to this site, at least from my end. I think there are other factors besides being older and miffed by technology, which would interfere with being able to tell the percentage of those who visited this place and actually ended up going through with their suicide.
Also have to take into account many cases where individuals don't request ban/strikethrough before attempting and die anyway (and cases of people practicing and ctb'ing unknowingly). For me personally, asking for a ban, and writing a goodbye post puts too much pressure on me to succeed because I don't want to survive and be left with the embarrassment of having to explain why I'm still here. I'm just gonna leave the account up and if I don't login for an extended period of time people will just know.
That's the part I'm afraid of. I don't want my death tracing back to this site either. It'd be difficult to keep track of everyone without exposing this site. I was trying to see if there was a way to message the mods confidentially to tell them to look out for a news clip/paper/obituary about a student from "x" school in "y" state so they could use that as confirmation but idk. I might just ctb when the time comes and not bring attention to it
You certainly underestimate "old" people. You're only 20 something, aren't you?
Lmfao. So true. I am one of those older people.
I feel like that would be incredibly difficult to keep track of, considering some members don't delete their account but stopped posting on their account. It would be a good idea though if there were an easier way to keep track of members who did successfully ctb.
Once in a while There are threads made to remember old members. Some are confirmed as well as they can be by their fellow friends that they made here and offline. I just saw one maybe a month ago with a pretty long list of users who were gone.
Very good. I think its also soooo important to realise that world wide or even nation wide , depending on where we live, we have a huge huge huge suicide rate. Blaming SS for 800, 0000 deaths annually is just weakness. Many many people CTB every day without the internet, without studying a method, without having a place to cry out at all. Thousands a day take their own lives to escape this place. I know this is kinda a different subject but many topics here always fall under the same thing. We are sad as a people. Many of us decide to give up on that BS game which is what it seems to be here in this world a game. I think at most we see 300 to 500 users here at a time which shows how little our numbers here are already. Compare that to the large number of national CTB rates in the largest countries here and its easy to see how small our community is compared to the "monster" that society tries to hide. A million people per year is my metropolitan city 5 times over every year. Looking out my mountain balcony that's a horrible reality as I only see a city of beautiful people. This is very sad.
im from russia haha. amazing stats, it's a little bit shocking
yeah probably. I´d tweak it to 1-2%. I mean just by looking at the global rate at which people succeed, from the many that attempt...it´s slim. Probably a bit higher here on SS though
I can believe that, I think a lot of people come here knowing they're gonna kill themselves, but want to know how to achieve it through a more accurate or/and peaceful method.
This chart tells so many fascinating stories. Russia being #1 doesn't surprise me (neither does Ukraine close behind), although I'd imagine it's a lot lower now compared to the immediate post-Soviet era.
This right here. If anything, the (few) people who come here "on the fence" about CTB are more likely to meet new friends who understand them, and maybe discover some new purpose that makes life worth living for them. If your goal is saving lives, that's how you do it. Not by suppressing accurate information and leading more people to try bad methods out of desperation.
That pic is also very old. 2016.
Someday before we actually start "fixing this world" we will have legal suicide for everyone. They will have parties livestreamed for celebrities and regular folk as they live their final days before peaceful assisted publicized live suicide. Just like getting slimmed on Nickelodeon.
Hahahahaha haha I'm in my late 30s I guess that's super old for a 20 something but was kind of funny what he said. :D))))) I think he was 6 when I got my first iPhone :D)))))))))Ha ha ha!
My guess is that less than 5 % of all the members of this community commit suicide. A very small percentage of all members post in the forum so posts here are not a very good indication.
LOL... I will be 38 two months from today so I can totally relate.
2% of people who have ever been treated for depression ctb. 4% of people who have been hospitalised for depression ctb. 6% of people hospitalised for depression following a suicide attempt ctb.
