Similar Cases
- 19-year-old Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide by ingesting an overdose of prescription drugs. He was broadcasting to a room full of viewers on his Justin.tv channel.
- Kevin Whitrick, a 42-year-old British man, hanged himself after logging into a chatroom on PalTalk, screening the proceedings through a webcam.
- Chris McKinstry, an AI researcher, committed suicide after posting a note to both his blog and the Joel on Software off-topic forum explaining the reasons for his demise, which was discontinued shortly afterwards.
- Dan Bucci, 19, consumed psychedelic mushrooms, made suicidal threats on IRC, vandalized his neighborhood nude and with a knife, before attacking a police officer in his car, who fatally shot him.
- A German was prevented from killing himself after Spanish internet users saw him announcing his decision.
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—Bible: New Testament Acts, 10:34.
Said by Peter at Caesarea; similar wording is found in Romans 2:11: “There is no respect of persons with God.”
“After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)