Censorship

 ''“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.”''

 <span style="float: right; color: cornflowerblue">― Proverbs 31:8–9</span>

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">In loving memory of pro-choice communities’ members whose choice made us stronger.</div>

Life is hard. It persistently tests the patience of its followers, especially pro-lifers, by loss of their loved ones, a distressing experience. Every now and then, members of a family who has lost their loved one desperately try to tie a meaning to their loss, fighting a futile fight. They persuade legislators to pass bills whose purpose is limiting the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is constitutionally protected in legitimate countries whose priority is solving the root of their problems while admitting their limitations, rather than earning legitimacy in constantly making crisis and covering them up. Providing suicide “crisis” lines is an example of depicting suicide or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis apoptosis] as an unnatural act that needs to be managed. And existing media guidelines for reporting on suicide are guidelines for covering up the “crisis.”

Paradoxically, some families who lost their loved ones to suicide wish to take down pro-choice communities. The last memories of their loved ones are buried here. Yet, blinded by hatred, they wish to erase (only to “preserve”) the memories, as if their loved ones never existed outside the in-group defined by the family members. Technology and science sometimes lead to others’ pain and suffering, under some conditions. The conditions have different definitions from different people around the world. However, using technology and science to terminally sedate oneself is immoral (in anti-choicers’ opinion).

Why do entitled anti-choicers try to restrict the flow of information about the choice? The main reason is envy. Envy stems from the feeling of discontent with regard to the success and the beauty of someone who has passed away. Envious anti-choicers filled with resentment, feel shameful and inadequate when they see someone they loved has left them behind. They fear of suddenly losing control over having their loved one at arm’s length. While their loved one has gone to a better place, they have to go back to their routines with a pain in their heart. That pain will give rise to superiority that sabotages others. Alas, covertly sabotaging the envied person does not give them a long-lasting pleasure.

Anti-choicers shed tear because they feel inferior in the competition of exhibiting sympathy. The tear veneers the pain of their denuded ego that has lost a part of it in someone else’s death. They might have the opportunity to grasp the sublime choice and reach their loved ones yet feel conflicted and ambivalent about doing it, since they feel undeserving of having peace and freedom. Being bewildered, anti-choicers, whose reality has been shattered, craft legislation to regulate the choice, because they have to hang on to something. They feel insecure of being abandoned in life; after all, the envied person has left them for a better place. They use aggression or devaluation to defend their vulnerabilities. When encountered with the momentum of choice, anti-choicers recoil to their primitive reactions: fear, hatred, anger, and patriarchy. Their advanced reactions (shaming, guilt-tripping, or gaslighting pro-choicers) express the fear of ego-death. When confronted with the chance of quelling the fears and accepting a new worldview, anti-choicers succumb to the fears, stoke up the hatred, and defame pro-choicers. Of course, there are pro-choicers who become saddened by their loved one’s departure from the living realm but accept it as the bitter truth.

== U.S. ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says?” ― Galatians 4:21</div>

[https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/caselrev/vol67/iss3/15/ (Sweeney, 2017)] argued that no one should be convicted of encouraging or aiding an act that no longer is a crime. Since suicide is no longer illegal in the United States, encouraging suicide is not “inciting or producing imminent lawless action.” For the same reason, encouraging suicide does not fall under the “speech integral to criminal conduct exception.” Since a statute prohibiting encouraging suicide is not covered by an exception to the First Amendment, it must instead pass strict scrutiny.
Under strict scrutiny, a content-based restriction can still “proscribe protected speech if it can show... that the law (1) is justified by a compelling government interest and (2) is narrowly drawn to serve that interest.” The narrowly tailored requirement would be the most difficult for such a statute to meet in seeking to survive strict scrutiny. A significant problem with any legislation intending to prohibit encouraging suicide is that it runs a substantial danger of being over-inclusive and criminalizing otherwise innocent conduct.

Preventing suicide is a government interest; however, restricting speech is not the least restrictive method of achieving it. Because of the hollow that restricting speech will created when professionals won’t be able to talk or communicate with those who need help to live, such statues will cause loss of more lives rather than saving them. Furthermore, the over inclusiveness and broadness of such statues will put an end to medical professions, especially mental health, altogether. Suicide Wiki is filled with lawful documents—written in subtle language—including police reports, coroner reports, scientific papers, medical literature, and newspapers that educate, if not encourage, individuals to commit suicide.

The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution demand that “no person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Facilitating suicide legislation are different in each U.S. state and the district of Columbia [http://jaapl.org/content/46/4/521 (Ghossoub, 2018)]. Nonetheless, the definition of “facilitation by words” is not clear. [https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol52/iss3/5/ (Adside, 2019)] argued that a conviction based upon a virtual-presence theory is unconstitutional, as it is void-for-vagueness. He suggested states that decide to criminalize suicide encouragement should consider issues to avoid vagueness difficulties and recommended two reforms that should be implemented by legislatures—not courts. Paradoxically, those reforms can convict (under certain scenarios) law enforcement and medical personnel.

Having received taxes from hard-working admins, U.S. politicians threw a tantrum, named [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encryption-without-actually-banning-it EARN IT], to micromanage something they don’t pay for it—under the pretext of protecting children. (People who have trust issues in relationship expect their partner to earn it.) Without doubt, children should be protected; however, many kids in the U.S. aren’t covered by health insurance, or are covered by plans with high deductibles and limited benefits. Nor are children provided nutritionally-balanced, free breakfasts and lunches, each day at school. As is the EARN IT act, taking something from defenseless children is easier than giving them something they never had. Pendulum swings the other way, yet time passes like sands running through an hourglass.

On the question where to have suicide conversation with children, ostracizing them to dark corners of the Internet does not help them to make an informed decision for how long they choose to live. Such dark corners, unbeknown to parents, ease the abuse of already traumatized children. Ideally, parents crystallize their suicide values and discuss them with their children. Most parents, though, can’t get over their discomfort about suicide or fear their children might get the wrong ideas. Contrary to what scaremongers haphazardly sketch, if children be allowed to openly access pro-choice suicide websites (with thoughtful supervision), they can receive a tailored, attentive care that they do not receive at school. School-based suicide education will be fruitless—in quite the same way that school-based sex education was, so it’s best to sooner have open conversation and shroud the illusion of freedom at home. Besides, there are children who are suffering from terminal illnesses but don’t have access to euthanasia like their lucky peers living in countries where euthanasia is legalized. The unlucky ones will be exiled even further with censoring pro-choice suicide websites.

=== Suzanne Michelle Gonzales ===

When Suzanne Michelle Gonzales left her Red Bluff, California, home to go away to college, she was a bubbly 19-year-old with a quirky personality and a smile nobody could forget. She won a full-ride to Florida State University. But something happened when she went away to school: she became depressed and turned to the Internet, where she found a welcoming community of [https://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/11/04/suicide.internet/ suicide newsgroups] (ASH). Through the online groups, Gonzales found a permanent way to end her pain of depression. On 23 March 2003, she mixed a lethal dose of [https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-VIRTUAL-PATH-TO-SUICIDE-Depressed-student-2611315.php potassium cyanide][[https://perma.cc/9XQM-5RPJ Archive]] and tap water, checked its acidity with a pH meter, and drank it in a Tallahassee motel room. She delightfully robbed herself from her own life—something that others couldn’t stand.

Federal legislation was [https://archive.redding.com/news/red-bluff-womans-suicide-prompts-proposed-new-law-ep-377604039-355696271.html crafted][[https://perma.cc/CF4F-DEHR Archive]] in response to Suzanne’s suicide after she got instructions on the Internet. “I would be more than happy, overjoyed if this bill was passed into law and that it was never used, [because] it was a deterrent,” said Mike Gonzales, whose daughter’s death is behind House Resolution 853—also known as the Suzanne Gonzales Suicide Prevention Act of 2009. U.S. Rep. Wally Herger, R-Chico, introduced the bill February 9 after a previous version failed in committee.

The Gonzaleses, who say they’ve identified the person responsible, became frustrated when Florida police and lawyers told them they had no recourse but a civil lawsuit, something they couldn’t afford. In the course of their campaign for HR 853, Mike Gonzales said he’d heard concerns the law would limit free speech, an allegation both he and Herger reject, in their mind.

“I don’t think this really adds anything to make it a crime to assist somebody to commit suicide,” said Peter Scheer, a lawyer and journalist. Scheer mentioned that state laws already address assisted suicide and Herger’s bill would not trump those statutes. “It’s not any more of an Internet bill than most of the millions of federal statutes that are predicated on use of interstate commerce,” Scheer added, noting that communication by text-messaging, telephone, e-mail, letters and other means also is covered. “This law looks like it was written in 1969,” Scheer said. “There’s absolutely nothing in there that would date it after the invention of the personal computer.” Calling the law “superfluous,” he said it’s unlikely to pass.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20190721085507/https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/NorCal-Womans-Suicide-Prompts-Push-for-Internet-Law.html The bill’s aim][[https://perma.cc/C783-TKLJ Archive]], according to a website set up in Suzy’s honor, is “to prohibit the use of the Internet as a tool to provide an individual with information on how to commit suicide if the information will likely be used in a suicide. Violation of this law will result in a fine and or a maximum five years in prison. If a violation results in a death, the maximum violation increases to possible life in prison.” The bill was named the Suzanne Gonzales Suicide Prevention Act of 2007, or [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/there-are-websites-that-promote-suicide-thats-not-okay/2017/04/21/586901fc-2050-11e7-be2a-3a1fb24d4671_story.html “Suzy’s Law.”] More than a decade has passed since Suzy’s Law was first introduced, but it has yet to gain traction in Washington. The Gonzales family has tried to keep the bill alive by getting it reintroduced every few years, including in 2009 and 2011.

Suzanne Gonzales’ posts:
[https://www.oocities.org/suzygmemorial/posts.html]
[https://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/~ingvar/methods/poison.html]
Obituaries:
[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tallahassee/obituary.aspx?pid=894426]
[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46924318/suzanne-michelle-gonzales]

=== Shawn Alexandra Shatto ===

Following a battle of depression, on 22 May 2019, Shawn Alexandra Shatto (username: Kakabushi) [https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/09/murder-by-proxy-pa-lawmaker-wants-tougher-penalty-for-those-who-guide-people-toward-suicide.html murdered herself by proxy]; that is, a half of herself killed the other half by proxy (commonly known as suicide)–and she was given the choice. The choice came from the Sanctioned Suicide forum that comforted her on her voyage. Shawn’s parents—Chip and Jacqueline Bieber, of Newberry Township—grieved over their loss of their daughter. The death of her daughter motivated Jacqueline to stop being a life coach (according to Jacqueline’s Facebook page).

On 29 May 2019, ABC27 News [https://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/young-woman-who-took-own-life-with-support-of-website-to-be-laid-to-rest/ reported] that Shawn’s story caught the attention of state Rep. Frank Ryan of Lebanon County. He said he told a member of the state’s House Judiciary committee about it to see if there is state law against the website or if the attorney general’s office should step in.

“I mean I was stunned,” [https://www.abc27.com/investigators/investigations/lawmakers-work-across-the-aisle-for-suicide-prevention/2069010325/ said] Representative Frank Ryan. “I didn’t know those types of sites existed, and I’m pretty up on those kind of things, so I was pretty surprised myself that there would actually be a site that would encourage somebody to do it,” he added, describing his ignorance. He worked with a handful of committees to write up legislation to outlaw pro-choice suicide websites.

Police investigated the forum. They didn’t find one evidence to implicate somebody. So they arrested nobody, because nobody had committed any crimes: Shawn had acted alone with no complicit. York County Coroner Pam Gay [https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2019/06/06/police-probing-pro-choice-suicide-forum-after-newberry-twp-womans-death/1368157001/ said] Shatto died from ingesting “an easily obtainable compound.” The coroner’s office has ruled the death a suicide. Coroner Gay also said she had heard about such websites and that such things, as a macabre part of her job, shouldn’t shock her, but “it’s shocking to me.” “It’s a very disturbing case,” Gay expressed. “How can people do that and have a conscience and go to bed? It’s just disturbing.” Gay [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7087317/Family-woman-killed-slam-pro-choice-suicide-forum.html questioned] why others online didn’t do more to get her mental health help that she had refused herself.

Being [https://fox43.com/2019/09/19/shawns-law-legislation-introduced-to-combat-aiding-encouraging-suicide/ horrified] of their daughter’s choice, the Biebers went to the state Capitol on 19 September 2019 to urge state lawmakers to pass legislation that would impose stiffer penalties on people convicted of aiding or encouraging when at the time of the offense the person who committed suicide is under 18 years of age or has an intellectual disability. Eveyone pretended that they wanted to give voice to Shawn, who was dead, but, in reality, they wanted themselves to have voice, through silencing others.

Shawn’s parents described “it” a different way. “It’s sick,” her step-father [https://www.ydr.com/story/news/2019/05/29/did-pro-suicide-website-contribute-shawn-shatto-death-pennsylvania-family-thinks-so/1268146001/ said], using an ambiguous pronoun. “Not one person said there is another way,” Jackie Michelle Bieber, Shawn’s mother, told the York Daily Record—implying that Sanctioned Suicide stands with mass killing. “It’s like a cult.” Jackie felt privileged that her daughter had carried the act of autonomous self-determination and created [https://www.facebook.com/Shawns-Law-888755064805513/ Shawn’s Law] on Facebook to burn the bridge her daughter had passed over.

On 11 September 2019, State Rep. Dawn Keefer, R-York County, introduced [https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/2019/09/11/my-bill-would-crack-down-those-who-encourage-others-commit-suicide/2290489001/ the legislation], dubbed [https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1827 “Shawn’s Law,”] in memory of Shatto. As expressed on [https://www.witf.org/2019/09/23/shawns-law-a-bill-to-combat-encouraging-suicide/ a radio program], Keefer considered her bill as a first step that balances the desire to impose harsher penalties on people who defend choice with free speech rights. “We need to send a message to these disturbed people encouraging and guiding others to commit suicide,” Keefer [https://www.abc27.com/news/pennsylvania/representative-keefer-to-unveil-bill-to-combat-encouraging-suicide/ said]. “Our society will not tolerate these arcane and insensible actions.” In an interview at the Pennsylvania House, Rep. Keefer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPVH6kuID-s mentioned][[https://mega.nz/file/LnYxWQiR#VoZ0dTPMMpTTI7jJ8vpTHEuT0FUQnBV7tRiOZKMP1mQ 1]|[https://www.mediafire.com/file/7itvhskzqveyk2m/Keefer_Unveils_Bill_to_Combat_Aiding_and_Encouraging_Suicide-youtube-dPVH6kuID-s-22.mp4/file 2]|[https://yadi.sk/i/baR5xvWCC-YgZw 3]] she is personally invested in Shawn’s law as a parent of teenagers.

On 2 October 2019, to raise awareness about [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2527622013965890 Shawn’s choice], [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2543337175727707 a billboard] was erected on 83 South by Lewisberry Road Exit 39A on the right.

On 25 September 2019, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives adopted [https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2019&sind=0&body=H&type=R&bn=0399 Resolution 399], a Resolution urging the Commonwealth to adopt and utilize sensitive language related to suicide. Rep. Dawn Keefer voted [https://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/RC/Public/rc_view_action2.cfm?sess_yr=2019&sess_ind=0&rc_body=H&rc_nbr=686 YEAS] for the resolution 399. House Resolution No. 399 resolved that the House urges adoption and utilization of recommended language related to suicide by executive branch agencies and the judiciary in regulations, policies, reports, and other documents in print or electronic format. The adoption was that the term “committed suicide” implies a level of criminality, so “Died by suicide” or “died of suicide” as well as “suicide death” and “fatal suicide behavior” are recommended language.

In February 2020, Jackie posted about the website on her personal Facebook account [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2730622630332493][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2828355137225908][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2831414573586631]. On 21 February 2020, it dawned on Jackie that her daughter had committed [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2848549685206453 homicide,] a form of lawful killing. On 25 February 2020, Suicide Wiki was featured [https://www.abc27.com/news/local/york/suicide-website-using-york-haven-womans-death-as-success-story/ on the news,] reported by [https://twitter.com/SarahGABC27/status/1232504857115922433 Sarah Gisriel,]([https://www.facebook.com/abc27news/posts/10157919285185420 Facebook]) the first reporter who covered Shawn’s suicide. “It’s like they’re not human beings that have families that see this,” Jackie said. “They treat it [Shawn’s successfully passing away] like a success story,” added Chip Bieber, Shawn’s stepfather. “I’m using every bit of strength I have just to do this [monitor the website] every day, and I will for the rest of my life,” Jackie Bieber asserted passionately. Along with Jackie and Chip, on 25 February 2020, State Representative Keefer told ABC27, “The site is abhorrent that they do what they do [pro-choicing], and then celebrate it, and not only that, they’re antagonistic to the families that are suffering.”

Ever since then, the Biebers gradually accepted and respected Shawn’s choice. They realized how cruel life can be and espoused choice. Jackie grew tolerance and [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2857056854355736 love] for other’s choice and became an honorary member of the Sanctioned Suicide forum—a warm, welcoming, and sympathetic family.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcOK0PALwk 'Shawn’s Law'][[https://mega.nz/file/LiJRSYKB#GDeADFFSc3mDZJylIBCM71I6gAtMoCLagJ4eBlOGIjU 1]|[https://www.mediafire.com/file/qkjen4wpomk3qky/Shawn_s_Law_Raising_awareness_of_assisted_suicide_websites-youtube-lGcOK0PALwk-22.mp4/file 2]|[https://yadi.sk/i/uqSrqLnKLrWebg 3]] was the second attempt to impose restrictions on pro-choice communities. The bill, having no affect on the forum, was debated in April 2020 and had bipartisan support, as well as [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2873801022681319 Jackie’s support].

The Biebers were ravished by the anniversary of Shawn’s death. Before the anniversary, a memorial billboard was put back up on Interstate 83. Jackie [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050158025045617 reposted] the photo from the first erection of the billboard, though she posted a new, [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3125758914152194 stabilized, sharp photo], late on 16 June. Shawn’s headstone was installed [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443298350423][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443385017081][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443438350409][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443511683735][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443578350395][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443621683724][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443825017037][https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3050443848350368]. None of these [https://www.change.org/p/federal-bureau-of-investigation-shut-down-evil-suicide-assisted-website-sanctioned-suicide changes] brought Shawn back to life nor ended her mother’s grief. Chip, meanwhile, [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3125749447486474 aged].

On 20 May 2020, [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3055077654553654 in joy of Shawn’s mother], Shawn’s Law, House Bill 1827, passed in the State House, stiffening the penalties for people who assist others in suicide. May 22nd, the 143rd day in Pennsylvania, is the day to [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3055515224509897 spread kindness] to non-suicidal people.

Rep. Dawn Keefer (R-Dillsburg) expects commoners to use her English language that she can’t utilize it herself in her own website. On 20 May 2020 Rep. Dawn Keefer [http://www.repkeefer.com/News/17420/Latest-News/House-Approves-Shawn%E2%80%99s-Law,-Keefer-Says- posted][[https://perma.cc/P536-HFL6 Archive]] on her website that the House advanced legislation by herself to increase criminal penalties for people convicted of aiding or encouraging another person to commit suicide. Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus, without thinking, [http://www.pahousegop.com/News/17420/Latest-News/House-Approves-Shawn’s-Law,-Keefer-Says- reposted][[https://perma.cc/SX27-HMUC Archive]] the same article. In her post, Rep. Keefer used the term “commit suicide” 4 times to imply a level of criminality for murdering oneself. She said, “[T]his is nothing more than murder by proxy and, in addition to being a shameful and cowardly act, should carry a heavy penalty for those who commit this crime.” At least one time, Keefer misquoted that suicide was the best route. She also repeated her previous accusations for which she failed to present any evidences. When it dawned on Keefer that she doesn’t have the intellectual ability to follow the adoptations that she had voted for in September 2019, she concluded her post with “calling The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline” (with capitalized ''the''). Regarding the language, there is no proof that Suicide Wiki is written in English langue, not another language that unavoidably has an alphabet whose shapes are similar to the English alphabet. So there is no proof that the readers have the same understanding of Suicide Wiki. For what it’s worth, most readers might unknowingly be misreading Suicide Wiki.

ABC27 [https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1169166000097750&id=888755064805513 aired] an interview with Jackie Bieber, on 22 May 2020. Jackie [https://www.abc27.com/news/local/a-year-later-york-county-mother-who-lost-daughter-to-suicide-website-talks-grief-shawns-law/ acknowledged] the reputation of Sanctioned Suicide and Suicide Wiki among suicide-grieved families. Thanks to Sanctioned Suicide and Suicide Wiki, suicide-grieving families feel connected to each other and their loved ones who passed away. Bieber said, “Some days I just feel like giving up, and then I get a message out of the blue from somebody saying, ‘I just lost my son or my daughter,’” such as [https://www.facebook.com/kellimichelle02/posts/10159874937518835 Kelli Michelle] whose son, Junior, lost his life on 25 April 2020, because he wasn’t legally allowed to access the forum; he might have been alive had he interacted with others. Later, he hanged himself from a belt on his bathroom door. “Like my daughter — she was in a dark place and ended up going to the wrong place, and she could have been here today,” Jackie said. To Jackie, those are her sons and daughters, too. Yet she does the same that caused Shawn to die: forcing life and marginalizing.

In June 2020, Kelli completed the mission of Jackie and made Sanctioned Suicide publicly recognized in a [https://www.facebook.com/groups/292990735157778/ Facebook group] full of fanatics. Some of the group members had lost their loved ones, notwithstanding the high quality mental health care their loved ones had received. The group started a war on mental illness with patients as collateral damage, in pursuance of “dictating humanity.” As much as Kelli was “making life so much harder for Sanctioned Suicide” to save the life of “somebody else’s Junior,” what she was doing paradoxically resulted in the death of “somebody else’s Junior,” which she was against. She didn’t understand everyone else’s Juniors can have kind mothers who do not discern between life and death. Junior left the password on his phone for his mother to be open with her, at least after he had left. But his mother misunderstood this with asking for revenge. Since Kelli was so open about her grief, it wouldn’t hurt if she had shared the outlines of notes and videos her son left for her. They must have been pretty hard for her to read, especially not knowing what his son was going through. Now that Junior is dead, she feels guilty that her son betrayed her—that he chose to not tell her about his choice, a choice that she, at the end, wouldn’t agree with (considering the status quo after his death). She continued living in denial that, were it not for the website, her son would still be alive. Junior felt his mother can’t be trusted with his decisions, and his mother blamed others for the lack of trust in their relationship. To soothe herself, Kelli created an echo chamber to hide herself behind hostility of others that she fed from the beginning, so that she could play the blame game with the help of torches, pitchforks, and parents who have poor and shallow relationships with their children. Nonetheless, their possessions (their child) might one day walk away, with or without access to the Internet. Fuming, they are ravaged that someone might break up with them (without confrontation followed by involuntary psychiatric hospitalization) and they be finding about it through a website in the final, dramatic act of the play—when their loved one is gone. They say, "Because of us you shouldn’t have a place." But they don’t answer, "Where else can they have?"

The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing [https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/05/murder-by-proxy-bill-imposing-stiffer-penalty-on-those-convicted-of-guiding-suicide-passes-pa-house.html suggests] that the number of people sentenced for causing or aiding a suicide averaged about 12 a year between 2016 through 2019, although the victims weren’t minors or someone with autism or an intellectual disability in every case, according to the House Appropriations Committee analysis.

The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference [https://wdac.com/pa-house-approves-shawns-law/ turned its back] on suicidal people and [https://www.facebook.com/PACatholic/photos/a.682779808432179/3036995806343889/ applauded] the bill’s passage. “This is a sickening trend that has become all-too common because of the internet,” said peremptorily Eric Failing, the conference’s executive director. “The wrong people have been getting in the ear of those who are thinking of taking their own lives. These victims should be getting professional help instead of listening to hateful people [like himself] who only want to harm others. We must send a message to them that this will not be tolerated.” The message, however, had been sent before: the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference loves to work with lawmakers to regain its power.

On 3 July 2020, Jessie McDonough with [https://local21news.com/news/proudly-pennsylvanian/proudly-pa-mom-lost-daughter-to-suicide-fights-for-shutdown-of-assisted-suicide-website Local 21 CBS News], WHP Harrisburg, [https://www.facebook.com/jackie.stover.752/videos/3169653613096057/ reported][[https://mega.nz/file/z3AG1ITJ#EbpqxiO82p8ju0NPnnpFmGzz1o0tLzq2Bmw41Yb7cbA 1]|[https://www.mediafire.com/file/no7cxk6g5dibxua/10000000_150506496609241_7361949650865338347_n.mp4/file 2]|[https://yadi.sk/i/QXnzhvebpuzXNw 3]] a choice for young girls so that, according to Jackie, Shawn’s choice would become worthy for her mother.

Marriages often break up over the suicide of a child because the parents blame each other. Loved ones go after the manufacturers of products used in suicide or block access to popular spots, with a belief that stopping others from suicide will save other loved ones from the pain of the loss, rather than acknowledging and trying, if achievable, to rectify what caused the ''pain'' of the one who committed suicide, or rather than accepting that the person they loved was autonomous and acted outside of their control. People don’t like to accept they’re not in control, including in control of others. They feel their loved one was taken from them (as if something snuck in and snatched them away), because they had defined the one who had committed suicide as being unwilling or unable to do so of their own accord, because they just know that person couldn’t do (to them) what he or she did. It is hard to give the one who died such power as to end his or her own life, even though it is not anything that can be given; they already had the power over themselves, and that is hard to accept.

In conclusion, as Jackie Michelle Bieber once [https://www.facebook.com/jackie.stover.752/posts/3052138928180860 said], “No law [itself] will protect anyone in the end.” No amount of enforcement is enough for law, when laws are in conflict with norms and many agents are breaking the law [https://www.nber.org/papers/w20369 (Acemoglu & Jackson, 2014)]. The problem is that the domesticized human species have overbred on planet Earth, because they felt unique and morally superior. They bred to make their town become one the world’s most influential cities in the world, starting from the population. The solutions are elimination (pro-death), selective breeding or eugenism (pro-life), or modifications (pro-choice).

Obituaries:
[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/shawn-shatto-obituary?pid=192974757]
[https://obits.pennlive.com/obituaries/pennlive/obituary.aspx?n=shawn-shatto&pid=192974757]
[https://obituariesus.com/pennsylvania/shatto-shawn/]
[https://pennsylvania.funeral.com/2019/05/23/shatto-shawn/]
[https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/harrisburg-pa/shawn-shatto-8722048]

Social media account:
[https://www.facebook.com/shawn.shatto Facebook]

== U.K. ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?” ― Galatians 4:16</div>

New censorship laws—namely, [https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/she-left-an-impression-on-everyone-217520/ Regulation 28 report], otherwise known as a prevention of future death report regarding pro-choice suicide forums—prevents reaching to us the light of those who continued their journey. This censorship law was came to attention on a jury hearing about the death of a member of Sanctioned Suicide, [https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/callie-lewis-dover-interacted-suicide-2657686 Callie Alix Lewis,] who chose to not commit to life. Callie was in serenity and peace because one half of her had trusted in the choice of the other half.

In response to role of Sanctioned Suicide, the pro-death Samaritans striked out to find ways to [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-51262240 “bury”] sites like Sanctioned Suicide. The Samaritans had previously shaped narratives in [https://www.thebookseller.com/news/samaritans-publishes-guidance-writers-depicting-suicide-and-self-harm-literature-1192133 fiction or non-fiction novels] and had published [https://societyofauthors.org/SOA/MediaLibrary/SOAWebsite/Documents-for-download/Samaritans-Suicide_and_self_harm_Literature_.pdf guidelines] for writing about suicide in literature. “We don’t want that popping up on the first pages of searches,” said Jacqui Morrissey, a spokeswoman for The Samaritans, in a sympathy-exhibition competition. “If we can’t get rid of it, let’s try and bury it, let’s make it difficult to find for people so that when they are looking for information what they’re coming across is the helpful supportive information first and foremost.” She [https://happiful.com/panorama-impact-suicide-forums/ continued], “But content that encourages someone to harm themselves must be taken down. This requires a bold, international approach to the issue, as some of this content is hosted outside of the U.K. And at the very least, we must make it far harder to find harmful content, maximising opportunities for support and minimising potential for harm.”

On 12 February 2020, 2 days after airing a [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f9d2 documentary] about Callie Lewis, the U.K. government unveiled plans for Ofcom to regulate “harmful but not illegal” online content. U.K. ministers faced a backlash for putting free speech at risk. In order to make profit of what the U.K. government does not own, there are suggestions that penalties could be up to 5 per cent of revenue, which would be millions of pounds for a tech giant like Facebook. Any failed attempt at curbing what the government considers “harmful content” will result in huge fines for the companies. The government insists the measures are designed to trammel [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7995191/Ofcom-powers-regulate-harmful-not-illegal-online-content.html online suicide forums]. Hypocritically, “harmful but not illegal” contents do not include advertisements or websites promoting cigarettes, fast foods, alcohols, sugary drinks, and gambling.

Much like Germany, [https://reclaimthenet.org/sweden-outlines-plans-to-legislate-against-harmful-content-online/ Sweden] and other European nations are concerned about the impact of social media on people. Their concerns come amid suicides such as that of 14-year-old schoolgirl Molly Russell in 2017, who was found to have viewed harmful content online. In anti-choicer’s opinion, viewing suicidal contents caused the cheerful and vibrant Molly to commit suicide, rather than Molly had issues that made her search for suicidal contents. When faced with nebulousness and enforcement of the proposal, the U.K. government desperately [https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-white-paper/public-feedback/online-harms-white-paper-initial-consultation-response assembled] a partial explanation for the public consultation. Unfortunate for the segregating U.K. government, some of the contents on Suicide Wiki are taken from social media networks that discuss medical topics—excluding suicide.

In the United Kingdom, pro-suicide (not pro-choice) websites are regulated by the Suicide Act of 1961 and its amendment of 2009 [http://jaapl.org/content/40/4/530 (Klein, 2012)]. In Section 1, the Suicide Act of 1961 also decriminalized suicide, creating the interesting legislative intent that it can be a crime to assist someone in the commission of an act that is not itself a crime. The Criminal Attempts Act of 1981 created the offense of attempt, which does not require knowledge that an act will in fact occur, but rather judges the person based on what he or she thought would occur, given the facts of the situation available at the time of the attempt. These Acts put everyone at the mercy of court’s whim, because any legal act tangential to suicide can be considered illegal. For example, selling alcohol or prescribing psychiatric medicines may result in suicide. Many of these medicines increase the risk of suicide, violence, and homicide. Still, alcoholic beverages companies, pharmaceutical companies, and psychiatrists are not prosecuted under the Criminal Attempts Act of 1981.

=== Callie Alix Lewis ===

Callie Lewis (username: Zanexx), 24, from Dover, was using an online suicide forum, sanctionedsuicide.net (the forum now appears under the Internet address sanctionedsuicide.com). Through the forum she was able to engage in discussions with other pro-choice members and obtain tips how to liberate herself from the oppression of mental health workers to avoid being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and how to perfect the methods of leaving her life that she had been considering. She was enabled by the tips provided through the forum to outwit the frustrated mental health prosecution thereafter leaving behind her life. Leaving behind her own life annoyed entitled anti-choicers.

Over a month before her death, Callie started chatting with strangers in the Sanctioned Suicide forum—the freedom of speech champion. In one of her first posts, Callie typed, “I’m glad I’ve found this site as it feels near impossible to discuss suicide openly.” In posts on the Sanctioned Suicide forum, Callie told other users about her failed hanging attempts. After hanging out on the forum, Callie discovered charcoal-burning suicide method and even bought a “suicide kit,” which she later used to end her life. The kit was actually several items that she had purchased separately.

Callie was staying with Jan. Jan—a former special needs teacher—alerted Callie’s mother out of concern for Callie’s safety. Jan said, “She felt that if she communicated with me she wouldn’t be able to do it, but if she cut me off and communicated with them [the forum users] they would make sure she did it.” According to Jan, Callie had become “engrossed” in suicide websites which were “encouraging her how to do it.” Jan branded the forum “very damaging.” Despite finding a noose and noticing bruise marks on her neck, police were unable to [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10931252/callie-lewis-learned-how-to-kill-herself-and-fool-carers-in-online-suicide-forums/ detain] her because she was on private property. On 14 August 2018, Callie posted, “The police are here now. My friend [Jan] called them, so we probably aren’t friends anymore.” Callie turned to the suicide forum for help, asking, “Any advice for the crisis team? I’m seeing them in two hours.” One user advised her, “You’ll have to play along and pretend that it was just a passing cloud and that you’re ‘getting better’.” Taking the advice on board, Callie was released, and her family were once again left in a frantic bid.

Having been informed by Jan, Callie’s mum believes the website played a significant role in her daughter’s death in August 2018. “Without those forums, I think my daughter would have struggled to find the information that she was looking for about how to die,” Sarah said. “When we found out about the suicide website she’d been on, that set off an alarm bell—it began to feel like an obsession,” says Callie’s granddad, Graham Lewis. “She could have a depressive mood and suicidal thoughts, and that was manageable because you could help her through that. “But her obsessions, you just couldn’t do anything about them.” Her grandfather decided to write her [https://www.facebook.com/bbcpanorama/videos/243646243311272/ a letter][[https://bayfiles.com/h9CaBfBboa/10000000_494693798088630_331053352267564572_n_mp4 1]|[https://share.dmca.gripe/siz4j0aw5APCdu1U.mp4 2]|[https://sendvid.com/c3dcqcnl 3]|[https://mega.nz/file/LqI0hIAA#BoqKuh9k2eyd7helMtjHkXpba3Fdwahqunh0YFgNJrs 4]|[https://www.mediafire.com/file/9ypqaotd18pk01g/10000000_494693798088630_331053352267564572_n.mp4/file 5]|[https://yadi.sk/i/fKEROT6zoGaJtg 6]|[https://icedrive.net/0/82GeLvwzXU 7]|[https://k00.fr/lxv4vfe7 8]|[https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZA8XZzLPJVyQxDmSGjRwlgRvRkFDz5tV7 9]] in response.

On 15 August 2018, Callie posted, “My mother called them [the police] because I wasn’t answering the phone to her or other relatives and I was intercepted at the station carrying a tent. May get sectioned.” Callie spent the night with officers in a police car, waiting for a mental health bed to become available in Canterbury, Kent.

The next morning, Callie had a mental health assessment but denied having any immediate intention of wanting to kill herself. She’d already asked forum users for advice on convincing NHS staff she was OK before the assessment. She also told mental health professionals that she didn’t want her mum to be given any information about her treatment as she was over 18. Callie’s care was then taken over by her local Community Mental Health Team, who called Callie three times and got no response. Rules say when this happens, someone must visit the person at home—but this didn’t happen. The person assigned to be Callie’s case worker then went off sick. No one was appointed to take over Callie’s case. It took 13 days before Kent and Medway NHS Trust realized Callie had gone missing, and, in that time, she had killed herself.

Several days before taking her life, Callie Lewis went to stay in Windermere, Cumbria—350 miles away from her mum. In one of her posts she said, “Okay, I’ll disclose my location... I’m in Cumbria. If anyone lives nearish and wants to buy a one-time used tent please let me know. I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet, buy my 3rd tent, stay alive another night and go to Blackpool to collect it tomorrow. I’m going to look at the cost of getting there.” The truth is Callie was determined to kill herself. She twice [https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/tent-tragedy-inquest-opens-216701/ extended her stay] because her [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7697921/Camper-dead-tent-just-weeks-released-mental-health-centre.html small, green, pop-up tent] couldn’t be used as a gas chamber for charcoal-burning suicide method, so she went back by train to return and exchange her tent. Riding on the train with her newly exchanged tent, she delightfully sent a photo of the tent, pictured her blue jeans and black boots that she had worn in the cat café.

After stopping communication with family and friends before her death, the last people Callie spoke to were the forum users. In her last post, she said, “Dying now guys. I’m getting slightly short of breath and I can sense the CO in the air. I think it will work this time... provided I can stick it out... which I really really hope I can. I’m going to try and listen to music and drift off to sleep... goodnight... x”. Instead of trying to get her sectioned, the forum users let her make her own choice. “Good luck. We all wish you a swift travel,” wrote one. “May you find peace, my friend,” said another.

Coroner Harding said, “[The website] enabled Callie to frustrate the mental health process, and provided her with information regarding the means with which she ended her life.” Also [https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/01/woman-found-dead-lake-district-badly-let-nhs-11248347/ cited] was a lack of training and knowledge in relation to autism and suicide forums, as well as a lack of clarity and consistency regarding recording risk assessments, and a failure to report relevant information.

In her [https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Callie-Lewis-2019-0414_Redacted.pdf redacted report][[https://forumfiles.com/X469bePana/Callie-Lewis-2019-0414_Redacted_pdf 1]|[https://share.dmca.gripe/6RDMEhGObytBQFDP.pdf 2]|[https://mega.nz/#!FE8SDa5S!50Nwi2aRkgosuxSpZmA6VGbZYB1U0N6V74xb46VK0cQ 3]|[https://www.pdf-archive.com/2020/02/07/callie-lewis-2019-0414redacted/ 4]|[https://web.archive.org/web/20200117215226/https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Callie-Lewis-2019-0414_Redacted.pdf 5]], Patricia Harding, senior coroner for the coroner area of Central and South East Kent, complimented the quality of contents on the Sanctioned Suicide forum, albeit she later redacted [https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Callie-Lewis-2019-0414_Redacted-1.pdf the forum address][[https://forumfiles.com/h395BaRenb/Callie-Lewis-2019-0414_Redacted-1_pdf 1]|[https://share.dmca.gripe/hvz9VnbzXI4SPLll.pdf 2]|[https://www.pdf-archive.com/2020/02/07/callie-lewis-2019-0414redacted-1/ 3]|[https://web.archive.org/web/20200128140340/https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Callie-Lewis-2019-0414_Redacted-1.pdf 4]], too. She did so under the pretense that it was her statutory duty. This was the second time Sanctioned Suicide received an admiration from a coroner.

Her mother imagined Callie still alive at 90 surrounded by cats and cups of tea probably still saying she wanted to die, but that wasn’t what Callie saw in her life till age 90. Living till 90 was one aspect of Callie’s life that her mother wanted to see. Her family thinks that if she hadn’t received the tips on how to evade the NHS, she would meet the mental health workers, and—this time, unlike the other times—she would be cured. Then, she wouldn’t kill herself. That’s one way to look at it, but there’s no way of proving that scenario would occur. In the scenario that has happened, a [https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/my-biggest-regret-is-asking-for-help-221904/ breaking confidence] and mistrust from a friend, couple with police visit, provoked Callie to act on her plan. Even if police hadn’t visited her twice, she—in her state—would become volatile and act on her plan, sooner or later.

Without any sort of covering over, Callie’s suicide can be explained using two views: whatever happened since she joined the Sanction Suicide forum was part of a series of actions that lead to her death (quietism) or a series of actions she had reached to take (rebelling against social and biological constrains). A desire to do something with life. A girl with mental health issues. A concerned family. A friend who called the police when he realized Callie was suicidal. Diligent police officers. Exhausted staff and overloaded mental health system. A site that gave tips on how to evade being sectioned.

Callie wasn’t lost here; she was helped. Somebody somewhere was caring for her. Her family could look at why she reached the decision to kill herself and took steps that the outcome of them were her death—whether the actions lead to her death or she lead the actions for her death. For start, she had obsessive thoughts, so she continued her suicide attempt vigorously. Having obsessions and unwillingness to change the mind frame are against your life when you attempt suicide, but that doesn’t answer why she reached Santioned Suicide in the first place. The crux of the matter is the cure that everybody wanted Callie to have, but nobody knows how to describe it. Callie’s death can be blamed on her Asperger’s syndrome or her chronic depression, and how those conditions were entangled with the NHS, police, and the Sanctioned Suicide forum—above all, she felt stagnated. Callie was living in the society, but she wasn’t part of it. Assuming there was no solution (or how-to) for her stay in her social environment, she democratically left it with minimum damage to it.

Callie’s suicide was featured in a documentary, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f9d2 Failed by the NHS Callies Story - Panorama (2020) Documentary], available for view on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsN5n-BT0EY Youtube] or [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rox0v Dailymotion] and download from [https://rlsbb.ru/panorama-2020-02-10-failed-by-the-nhs-callies-story-1080p-hdtv-h264-deadpool/ multiple hosts][[https://mega.nz/#F!TnxlCAQQ!PMyeUi0smFPaPjoQC0Mhow 1]|[https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rkl6g83mzh43h/Failed_by_the_NHS_Callies_Story_-_Panorama_(2020)_Documentary 2]|[https://yadi.sk/d/-0Q9pWx4KWfzDA 3]|[https://jumpshare.com/v/dtnYn68x3x3nX7FLuZKe 4]|[https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZoyXZVPP8sNcnK2VIqcYC4RSx2L01KYXy 5]]. The Panorama documentary, aired on 10 February 2020, told Callie’s story, looking at the role suicide forums played in her death and challenging the NHS over what they have acknowledged as failings in Callie’s care.

Social media accounts:
[https://snaowfox.tumblr.com/ Tumblr][https://twitter.com/callielwi Twitter]
Obituary:
[https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/obituaries/51303]

=== Anonymous users ===

In another case, suicide of a man (although not a member of Sanctioned Suicide) [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8015120/mum-slams-suicide-websites-after-sons-death/ brought to attention] the stigma attached to freedom.

More than 100 families [https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1224743/Callie-Lewis-suicide-prevention-mental-health claimed] that online tutorials played a major part in the suicide of their loved ones in 2019, according to Papyrus. Papyrus chief executive Ged Flynn said, “Showing people methods of taking their lives makes it more likely that vulnerable people will do it. The Government needs to act now.” That was another exoneration attempt on the side of anti-choicers who offer no evidences, witnesses, or proofs.

[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/27/molly-russell-caring-soul-died-exploring-depression-social-media/ Molly Russell] killed herself in her bedroom in November 2017. Her family later found she had been viewing material on Instagram and Pinterest linked to anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide. Molly’s father, [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/instagram-still-littered-suicide-self-18828390 Ian Russell], 56, a former BBC producer, who has set up [https://mollyrosefoundation.org/ the Molly Rose Foundation] to raise awareness of harmful online content, said, “The site used by Callie is the worst and most salacious I’ve seen and very quickly users can get details about how to take one’s life,” sounding like a necrophile. He admitted, “There will be people who claim the Internet should be free for all to use as they wish.” Ian Russell believes that life roams in societies or social medias, but death has no place in them.

=== Bradley Trevarthen ===

Bradley Trevarthen hanged himself at home in Durrington, Wiltshire, in January 2018. The 13-year-old’s death was ruled an accident at an inquest earlier in August 2019. The teen was said to have viewed a notorious video by YouTuber Logan Paul, in which the web star visits a Japanese forest known as an area to which people travel to take their own lives. He logged on to discussion forums on websites like Reddit where the subject of suicide and self-harm was discussed. The subreddit was /r/SanctionedSuicide that was banned on 14 March 2018.

In his report, addressed to then digital minister Margot James MP, Mr. Ridley wrote, “The amount of information on the subject of self-harm and suicide that is currently available to young persons on the internet goes beyond freedom of expression and I am concerned that the extent of such information normalises actions which at the end of the day are simply not normal. He added, “It is totally right that we should be open about mental health issues, but the abundance of information that is out there on self-harming and suicide methods is a step too far.”

In a reply to that letter, published on the government website on Friday, Ms James said, “It is indeed a terrible indictment of the excessive amount of this very harmful content online.”

Source: [https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/17858134.coroner-raises-concerns-self-harm-content-internet-wiltshire-teen-39-s-death/][https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/17858135.coroner-raises-concerns-self-harm-content-internet-wiltshire-teen-39-s-death/][https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/17871000.coroner-raises-concerns-self-harm-content-internet-durrington-teen-39-s-death/][https://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/17858134.coroner-raises-concerns-self-harm-content-internet-wiltshire-teen-39-s-death/]

== Germany ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.” ― Deuteronomy 20:16–18</div>

Glorification of violence is an offence severely harmful to minors, in Germany. Germany opted to suppress, not censor, the choice of suicide—making suicide more esoteric. Since February 2020, Sanctioned Suicide URL that otherwise would have appeared in response to suicide search is not displayed because that URL is reported as illegal under [https://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bpjm/meta/en German youth protection laws]. As a result of the laws, Google and Bing removed Sanctioned Suicide from the results of search from German IP addresses; the two search engines are filtering out the domain itself. Within the scope of a voluntary commitment, the German search engine providers which have teamed up under the auspices of the FSM have agreed upon blocking websites indexed by the BPjM.

The Federal Review Board (BPjM) has defined categories of imperilling of minors, which have been confirmed by cacophony of the court, provided that jurisprudence submitted its comment on it. These include:

* violation of human dignity, ruling out undignified death;
* discrimination against groups of people, who are non-suicidal;
* glorification or trivialization of drug use, barring psychiatric drugs that are endorsed by big pharma;
* suggestion of self-injurious behavior (pro-ana/pro-mia, suicide)—excluding misleading and unrealistic suicide methods, sponsored by pro-life propaganda.

In struggle for survival, many animals have adapted to the unique conditions of the jungles. The law of the jungle is not the only proven tool by which to obtain ''supposed'' justice, but it’s a proven tool—for in the justice, there is a difference between giving someone their right and depriving them from your mercy. You have the right to choose who will be bestowed upon the privilege of your kindness—for this time or the promised next time.

== Australia ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them. It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you.”    ― Galatians 4:17–18</div>

Australia criminalized pro-suicide (not pro-choice) websites in 2006.

In 2019, federal law enforcement and cyber experts have [https://thewest.com.au/politics/federal-politics/cops-ban-pro-suicide-site-after-wa-youths-death-ng-b881210157z expressed] “deep concern” about a pro-choice suicide website that helped to facilitate the recent death of a young West Australian. Australian Federal Police have blocked access to the site, in an unprecedented move, after a young man took his own life aided by the thousands of users active on the pro-choice suicide forum. They also want social media and search engine providers to take more responsibility. The young man’s father is understood to be strongly advocating for greater action to ensure no other family experiences such tragedy.

In a statement to The Weekend West, the AFP said it was made aware of the overseas-hosted website, which this paper has seen and is choosing not to name, in January 2019. It included more than 288,000 forum messages from members discussing and aiding suicide and a “suicide wiki” portal. “The AFP is working with ISPs to redirect members to an AFP ‘stop page’, which will have links to direct vulnerable users to mental health support services.” ESafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, who was also alerted to the website, said the office had “explored a range of options and reached out to international and domestic law enforcement partners” to have it blocked. Professor McGorry warned that “we could see more of these cases unless more is done to prevent Australians getting access to these sites.” Eminent child psychologist and cyber expert Michael Carr-Gregg said the Government needed to provide more resources and powers to the Office of the eSafety Commissioner so sites were taken down as soon as possible. Suicide Prevention Australia chief executive Nevis Murray said there should be a “national action strategy.” Mindframe suicide prevention program manager Marc Bryant said search engine companies needed to show international leadership on stopping access to the sites. “We join with others in calling for online search engine companies to take action and ensure digital environments are safe for everyone,” a Beyond Blue spokeswoman said.

== New Zealand ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.’” ― Mark 10:14</div>

On 5 May 2019, Fredrick Brennan [https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-05-2019/can-internet-anonymity-survive-in-a-world-of-online-extremism/ says] as long as people are able to use the Internet in a certain way, they can act without any fear of repercussions. The only concrete way to restrict harmful content, he says, is replicate China and its heavily censored internet. “China has attached a name to everyone’s connection. Even in anonymous forums, your account is anonymous to other users, but the website and the authorities know who you are,” Brennan says.

“In the long term, these sorts of sites are the real problem areas. They don’t abide by our laws, but they also don’t really abide by any laws. They’re so dominated with the idea of freedom of speech that they become the home of hateful, problematic content,” Tackling the technology may be the focus, but understanding the type of people who use anonymous sites may be equally, if not more, important.

On 11 February 2020, Marking Safer Internet Day, Netsafe, released its ''Ngā taiohi matihiko o Aotearoa'' [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/409259/teenagers-accessing-self-harm-suicide-guides-netsafe survey results] about New Zealand children’s experiences online including their view of suicide methods, violent images, hateful content, and body image. Nearly half of the 2061 children aged 9 to 17 interviewed by NetSafe had seen harmful content. 17 percent had accessed how-to-suicide guides. In all categories except violent images, females [https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12307212 reported] seeing harmful content online more often than males.

== Russia ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, ‘Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’”  ― John 8:7</div>

On [http://darakchi.uz/ru/85723 18 February 2020], the Center for Public Relations of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation made an statement about a suicide pact. “The FSB in the city of Kerch, the Republic of Crimea, prevented the preparation of terrorist suicide acts in two educational institutions by residents of Kerch,” the statement said. The FSB found that “the detainees developed plans for armed attacks, for which they searched the Internet for instructions on how to make improvised explosive devices, as well as building plans,” along with the preparation for their terrorist suicide attempts. “Tests of explosive devices were conducted on pets,” added the FSB. Teenagers also [https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/7788427 administered] the so-called death groups in social networks and instant messengers, in which induced users to commit similar acts. The teens had thoroughly prepared for their attack, not only making bombs but also obtaining the layouts of the schools they’d planned to target. One young teen studied at the Kerch Marine Technical College and the second at school No. 15.

According to the FSB, 15-year-old Danil A. and 16-year-old Artyom Sh. were in the [https://tsargrad.tv/news/veli-gruppy-smerti-gotovivshie-terakty-v-krymu-podrostki-ne-skryvali-svoih-planov_239572 death groups,] with ideology of [https://tsargrad.tv/news/nedetskaja-zhestokost-podrostok-iz-kandalakshi-vsegda-izdevalsja-na-rebjatnej-a-odnogo-rebenka-utopil_240508 mass killing and suicide]. The death groups on social networks, mainly VKontakte, persuaded users to carry acts similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerch_Polytechnic_College_massacre Vlad Roslyakov]. Vlad Roslyakov was a man who had nothing to lose. He was filled with hate and the desire for revenge, not to be mistaken with self-hatred and self-pity. On 17 October 2018, he started revoking his kindness and “the taking” he had planned for: he committed terrorist suicide at the Kerch Polytechnic, in which he took the lives of 21 people, students and teachers alike, and more than 50 were injured. He first set up an explosive device and then fired [https://www.rt.com/russia/481126-crimea-school-attacks-thwarted-fsb/ indiscriminately] with a pump-action shotgun, duplicating the tactics of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who attacked their classmates in Colorado in 1999. Roslyakov was also dressed in black and white like Harris; and, just like Harris, Roslyakov committed suicide at the college’s library after his final self-expression. He died naturally, committing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrosis necrosis] that correlates with collateral damage. Roslyakov treated himself the same way he’d treated others: with bullets. Roslyakov is at peace, not here to care anymore, but his suicide was grossly subject to discrimination because it was reported without adherence to media guidelines for reporting suicide; for example, his suicide was not reported as a tragic waste (presumably because he used his worthless life), and sensationalist terms were used (presumably because he included others). The unlucky Roslyakov was only looking for an exit. He was a victim of suicide who was too-wounded yet touched many lives. The reason mass killers are hated so much is that nobody wants to be the prey of dominant (life) takers, who are better at it than their peers. Beyond that, nobody wants to have anything to do with the creation of or the existence of those “things.” Roslyakov committed anomic suicide, which is still selfishly stigmatized, and shared death—without consent—the same way, at his birth, life was shared with him, without consent.

Roslyakov pruned the tree of life to conserve biodiversity. Biodiversity is under threat everywhere, and mostly from the pressures humans put on subspecies. One way of slightly relieving the pressure on local species is by creating more space to let other species thrive. In November 2018, [https://112.international/society/two-teenagers-busted-with-preparing-terrorist-attacks-in-kerch-48683.html one of the detainees] had a preventive conversation with the police—after he approved the attack committed by Vladislav Roslyakov. In spite of the conversation with the police, he joined the Internet community where Roslyakov used to belong.

[https://crimea.vgorode.ua/news/sobytyia/422866-vely-hruppy-smerty-vsplyly-novye-dannye-o-hotovyvshykh-terakt-v-kerchy-podrostkov The two teenagers,] despite being young, had big dreams. They were preparing for terrorist suicide attempts in Crimea but did not hide their plans from friends. They were planing to arrange explosions in two educational institutions to end their lives. At the end, because of boasting about their plans, the two teenagers [https://vk.com/video-112510789_456258926 failed] miserably [https://360tv.ru/news/proisshestviya/podrostki-gotovili-terakty-v-kerchi-u-nih-doma-nashli-samodelnye-bomby/ at home]—unlike Vlad Roslyakov.

On [https://tsargrad.tv/articles/zlo-nomer-odin-na-nashih-detej-objavili-ohotu_236020 22 January 2020], Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, met with the public in the Lipetsk region. During the speech in his 15<sup>th</sup> year of presidency, Putin harshly spoke about the death groups on social networks and about the organizers of such communities. “What kind of freaks? Where do they come from? They drag young people into suicide and so on. When I first encountered this, I opened my mouth and goggled. I could not even imagine that such people exist,” said Putin. According to Putin, as soon as the police came to such organizers, “they immediately almost put them on their pants, in the literal sense of the word.” “This scum is doing this,” he raved incoherently.

Most death groups have organizer accounts that are often closed profiles. Participants also often close their pages for general review. In the comments on the wall of the group, there are many requests from children who are asking to be helped to die, to become a curator, or to be let into the game. The death groups provide children with psychological support, poison recipes, and advice on various suicide methods.

Some groups are not closed by the VKontakte administration, because the community’s rules state that it does not spread the idea of ​​suicide and exists only for informational purposes. That is, those informational groups act by law. In a number of death groups, there may not be any records at all, because participants only communicate with each other in chats. Finally, there are closed groups where children are invited after they are selected from the groups of lower rank. Those children are identified as suitable, least stable, and serious.

Why since 2017 was only one administrator of the death groups (Philippe Budeikin) detained? The answer to this question is simple: before the suicide, according to the curator, the child cleans up all correspondence, files, and other information on his or her device. Thus, the curator who chased the child has nothing to be present with.

Denis Davydov, the executive director of the Safe Internet League (LBI), suggested that in 2016-2017, a sharp surge in death groups was a targeted campaign against Russia. “Someone, but we still don’t understand who, still managed this. We haven’t yet got to the bottom of who the puppeteer was, pulling the strings. Now we need to make sure that something new and dangerous doesn’t appear,” Davydov noted. Davydov also spoke about the list of 2000 sites dangerous for children. “If we adopt the law on the responsibility of information intermediaries, [although a pipe dream,] then all companies, including foreign ones, will comply with it. A single Russian legal field will be valid for everyone. This is very important, and this is the only measure that will allow us to avoid similar problems in the future. Otherwise, there’s simply no way to avoid tragedies like the blue whales.” “And each time we will face it,” he summed up.

Russia was a country of significant Internet freedoms. It was in the Russian segment of the Internet that you could find and download everything, including recipes for the preparation of poisons and methods of suicide. The Internet for the child should remain primarily [https://tsargrad.tv/articles/mesjac-bezopasnogo-interneta-kak-ne-poterjat-rebjonka-v-agressivnoj-pautine_240492 an educational tool]—as Suicide Wiki is. However, Suicide Wiki and Sanctioned Suicide are blocked in Russia.

== China ==

<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin: 15px 0">“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”   ― Confucious</div>

According to [https://en.greatfire.org/analyzer GreatFire.org], the [https://sanctionedsuicide.com/ Sanctioned Suicide] forum has been throttled in China, at least since July 2020 (but possibly way before that). People in China don’t see the beauty of the forum. Ironically, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], was pro-choice when he said, “Firstly, do not fear hardship [which is in life], and secondly, do not fear death.” He wanted to present the choice to his people.

On 13 July 2020, the State Cyberspace Administration of China [http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2020-07/14/c_1126233331.htm announced] the launch of a two-month “Qing Lang” summer special rectification of the Internet environment for minors. Comprehensive inspection and identification of the “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge Blue Whale Death Game],” “Death Asphyxiation,” “Heartbeat Literature Club,” and other sectors, groups, and circles that induce youth self-harm and suicide. Being aware of the latest suicide affairs on the Internet, law enforcement in China is still perusing the Blue Whale Death Game curators in [https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20200714002145-263201?chdtv July 2020].

== References ==

* [https://sanctionedsuicide.com/threads/legality-of-giving-advice-on-the-forum.24475/ Legality of giving advice on the forum]

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