Suicide Games

[Julio Juliopolis]

Encouraging suicide isn't something that only cults do, nor only people on the internet. In a recent case a teenage Massachusetts girl was convicted of manslaughter for encouraging a teen boy to kill himself. Oddly enough early on in this incident she claimed that she felt like encouraging him to do it just so that he would fail and get some help for himself, yet later on she was pushing him to go through it when he had doubts and helping make sure he would succeed. The plan was to buy a generator and let it run inside his car and let the CO2 do the job. She admitted to having told him to "get fucking back in there!" when he had left the car for fresh air. She listened to him die over the phone, saying that for the last 20 minutes or so he only moaned a bit when she mentioned his name. At no time did she encourage him to leave the car, nor did she call for help. She did however send him a text asking if he'd deleted her earlier texts, (he'd apparently deleted some, but there were many more incriminating ones left that he hadn't gotten rid of yet). About 4 hours after his death she sent a text asking if he was okay and telling him she was worried about him.

One of the articles about it can be found here. http://ktla.com/2017/06/07/massachusett ... er-urging/

The moral? Look more closely at who you associate with. Whether it be online or in "real" life, cult or no. More than just focusing on how people make you feel, (psychopaths are great manipulators), focus on how they actually treat others. Do they genuinely care about them, or is it just lip service? How do they react when people do things they don't like, even when it's with good reason? How honest are they to others? They're probably no more honest towards you.

Thinking about it, perhaps a better moral than just being careful who you associate with is being careful with how much power you give others to influence you.