So how did you find out this SS website?

[toplaygames202212]

As the title says, how did you find out this SS website

 

[HerculePoirot]

The New-York Times

 

[Unknown21]

Reddit.

 

[QteStimBnnuy]

Some random yt saying the site promotes suicide or smth, it big bad ect. I was just like "hell yeah". A site that allows these sort of talks, info sharing, such and such - probably what I thought

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Websearch, when I was totally desperate and depressed. I don't remember exactly what I searched for exactly.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Searching for methods. Read about SN. Found the forum via The New York Times article.

People have run polls in the past- if you're interested...

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

It was back in 2020 on a reddit forum, I think r/suicidewatch since all the others had been banned by then and someone commented to me on there about this place

sanctioned-suicide.net

 

[Theresnoescape]

By searching, I just want to die. Came across this site, and even though I don't contribute much, have been here everyday since. It has helped more than I ever thought possible.

 

[Plentiful_Despair]

Reddit. Someone mentioned I should go here because reddit doesnt allow freespeech, and its true. Any of us would be banned on reddit for talking about suicide so much.

 

[alltoomuch2]

The BBC

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I thought as to how a pro lifer would find a suicide forum so I searched "pro suicide documentary" and I immediately found SS. Of course this site isn't pro suicide but rather pro choice. However, I knew that people would treat a site like this as pro suicide and it turns out I was right

 

[octopusinu]

Some random youtuber that made a video on boohoo this site promotes suicide, gotta thank the dude for prompting me to search for this website and finally found a relatively peaceful method(was gonna get hit by a train before i realized how many options are available)

 

[Ol Messier 87]

I was actively searching for information about different methods, then I came across it in the "references" section of some wiki page (possibly PPH).

 

[offbalance]

Reddit, I was part of the now-quarantined pro-choice subreddits. Hard to believe it's been over 5 years now

 

[destinationlosangel]

God bless the New York Times

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I was looking up the full transcript of the Bojack Horseman episode "The View From Halfway Down". That episode had just recently aired and it stuck with me how peaceful the first half of the poem is. The second half being so dark just goes to show how lame jumping is as a method and so it got me thinking of ways to ensure that second half is just as peaceful and calming as the first. Luckily I found this forum because someone else here apparently posted the whole poem and that showed up in my Google searching for it.

 

[scubadam]

tantacrul's video. decided to check it up, stayed for longer. not for the reasons he mentioned in his work obviously

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Searching for methods i came across the ny times article. It was so long I didn't catch that the name of the site was in it. But then I came across an interview with the authors of the article and there was a question mentioning that the site name was in the story so I had to read it a second time.

 

[nihilistic_dragon]

I was curious if N was actually still obtainable in So Am as PHH claims, so I googled that and here I am lol.

 

[youpi]

Streisand effect, vice!

 

[notsadtogo]

BBC article

 

[sadidiot0328]

I googled "suicide site" and voila. I found this place

 

[sickboy55]

An online news article which didn't name the site, but it was easy to find on Google

 

[banger12]

Ironically enough, it was the Tantacruel video. For those not in the know, Tantacruel is this music youtube channel that made a dumb hit piece on SaSu a while ago that got some traction. I hadn't heard of the guy before but the video popped in my feed. Watching the video I could easily tell what he was peddling was total BS and upon checking the website and lurking a bit to verify, yeah, it was easy to confirm that he was full of shit. But the premise of the website piqued my interest either way (as someone who had struggled with mental health and CTB in the past at that time) so I made a mental note of it in case I would ever need to use it as a resource and I'd lurk very occasionally. I've had a really rough 9 months so I decided I did need to use the website now after all and made this account. Ofc I got the benefits of access to resources and info from joining, but I also have really loved the community here and, contra Tantacruel, found that people here are generally very kind, loving, and supportive and not at all how he tried to characterize.

 

[ADBoy777]

Was looking for methods and found this site

 

[wallavenue]

BBC article, LOL

 

[InTheAbyss]

Met a forum member from here on another site a few years ago. After talking to them about euthanasia and ctb for 2-3 years. When my plan to get approved for euthanasia failed again and I decided to go back to working on ctb again. They invited me to join the site.

 

[nobob]

A news article trough web search for suicide. This was a few years ago. Then I forum the forum in yandex web search.

 

[exitingtothevoid]

I was googling ctb methods and this site was in the results. I knew this site existed and maybe visited before, can't remember, but this time I joined immediately and dove into researching my preferred ctb method.

 

[ThisIsMe1357]

I was actually browsing the Dark Web for the first time in my life out of curiosity (and because I wanted to find out whether there was any pentobarbital available anywhere by any chance). This website simply popped up when searching one of those hidden wikis or those compiled lists of different onion websites.

 

[mrpeter]

ai of all things