Death and suicide on the web

A friend pointed me to an article (found via a post at Think Christian) titled, “The Web Is The Worst Place to Grieve.” The article, published in a conservative-libertarian magazine, describes several examples of real and feigned suicides that have been blogged on the web.   Blogging had made possible public suicide notes.  The article is a good reminder of the dark side of Web 2.0 whose opportunities and possibilities I’ve explored here in the past (see posts in Blogging category).