EPTFor those of you who doesn't know what Flashback forum is (pretty much every non-Swede I would assume) it's a forum with some kind of sweet extreme freedom-of-speech and anonymity. Nothing is too ballsy for Flashback, it seems.
I was glaring through the "Hot subjects" earlier today and noticed a pretty creepy thread named "Hanging". When I entered, there was this dude who pretty much just said that he was going to hang himself via a webcam. Since this is a pretty common thing to state at Flashback (damn trolls) everybody was like "yeah, go ahead, you won't even do it" He was typing very calmly and used smilies and everything while he was revealing that he had been taking painkillers earlier that day and was just waiting for them to take effect. Obviously, everyone still thought that he was trolling.
Suddenly, he said that "I'm on the brink of not doing this now, starting to get cold feet, so better get if overwith", linked to a page where a webcam was dumping pictures every minute from his livingroom. You could slowly see as he tied an internetcable around his neck, and dropped forward. Suddenly, it all turned real and people started to call the police. At this stage, I was pretty much panicing as I realised I was witnessing a suicide, live, with a real person.
As the pictures updated, you could see that he was hanging partly from the cable and the face turned bluer every minute until it was pretty much pitchblack. Then it turned around until he was pale as a ghost. This happened during the timeinterval of perhaps 15 minutes. A few minutes later, the police and paramedics rushed in and started the lifesaving. Unfortunatley, it was all to late.
I find it so damn sad. So fucking sad. He stated earlier that he had Aspergers-syndrome and was very lonely, perhaps bullied. Some people, including myself, tried to convince him into not doing it, but he just said that you have to live for yourself, not for anyone else.
I wish there was some way I could have stopped this today... damn, feeling completely destroyed.
Link to the thread, in swedish: https://www.flashback.org/t1322408
Im sorry you had to see that kind of stuff....
