trihub Sergeant
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Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:46 pm Post subject: Signs of the times: Internet anonymity trivializes a death. |
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Article by Los Angeles Business Journal
Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/
It has been three weeks since Ripper died, I but it didn't make the news until a few days ago.
At first, his death seemed depressingly mundane. Phoenix woman goes into her son's room one afternoon to wake him for work. Finds him dead of an overdose of prescription drugs, marijuana and alcohol.
It wasn't until days later that his family turned on his computer and discovered that he died in a room full of his friends who watched him kill himself while some egged him on.
In the privacy of their chatroom, in the anonymity of their Internet names, in ... |
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