How did you find out about sanctioned suicide?

[jodes2]

It looks like search engines aren't keen on showing content from this site, so how did you find it? I found it years ago in Google before all the campaigns against it started. It's sad, the activity on this site has dwindled. My precious online home is being threatened!

 

[Lauriso]

I read an article about alt.suicide.holiday. Then I Googled about it, and found a scientific (statistic or something) paper listing the most common keywords people use to look for suicide related sites. So I then used those keywords and landed here. I don't think that's what the authors had in mind, but it worked :).

 

[Ginnn]

I found it on Google. I was looking for methods and clicked on one of the first entries, it was a post. I was surprised at how detailed that post was, so I started visiting this site as a guest.

I also remember finding ss before but saw in the description it said "pro life" lmao.
I think that ss is quite accessible in my country

 

[jodes2]

I read an article about alt.suicide.holiday. Then I Googled about it, and found a scientific (statistic or something) paper listing the most common keywords people use to look for suicide related sites. So I then used those keywords and landed here. I don't think that's what the authors had in mind, but it worked :).

When was it that you did that search? I think things have changed. It doesn't even come up when I search for "sanctioned suicide"

 

[Raskolnikov's Axe]

From reddit and one of the news articles condemning it.

 

[Celerity]

Reddit. My original account is older and was in there when we had a different domain and everything.

 

[Degen]

Probably used duckduckgo and searched for suicide forums and other related keywords, can't really remember but I figure that's how it went

 

[Yavannah]

i found the forum though the ny times article

 

[narval]

Searching about how to CTB (finding nothing, all be said) and related info like how to detect the simptoms (If i know how "they" can catch me, i can take the initiative and hide it). Eventually i landed on a vice article ponting here. And here i am

 

[FuneralCry]

I remember coming across a news article about this site and of course I wanted to know the name of the website as I was suicidal and wanted to research methods. The article did not name the website but I found it soon enough. But unfortunately I am still here of course. Even with all the method resources, suicide is still so difficult and complicated.

 

[Foresight]

I don't remember actually. I have no memory of it. I was dead inside and my brain barely functioned. The only thing I remember is I didn't like the format of reddit. I spent more time on lostallhope for methods.

When it shut down I let it go. I found the forum some time later after being brutalized at work. I prefer the forum.

 

[Anonymus]

Simply reading news about suicides, one fine day the journalist/columnist thought of naming this website and that's how I entered it.
What I did not expect is the warmth of the community of users of this website and that we have so many things in common. It is a wonderful little world with a very characteristic light of its own.

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Simplement llegint notícies sobre suïcidis, un bon día al periodista/columnista se li va passar pel cap de posar el nom d'aquesta web i així hi vaig entrar-hi.
El que no m'esperava es la calidesa de la comunitat d'usuaris d'aquesta web i que tinguem tantes coses en comú. És un petit món meravellós amb una llum própia molt característica.

 

[BitterlyAlive_]

Found the site in late 2019 from a search engine. Can't remember which one

 

[Lauriso]

When was it that you did that search? I think things have changed. It doesn't even come up when I search for "sanctioned suicide"

July this year, as I see it as the month I joined.

 

[Dying2DieDamnSI]

Thank you, New York Times!!

 

[U. A.]

I spent some time on another wordpress-based site that offered some respite for a while, but didn't really offer much in the way of member interaction, which I soon realised I wanted. Someone posted about this place there, and after a while I checked it out. And here I am.

 

[lofticries]

Vice article warning ppl not to come here lol.

 

[Celerity]

Vice article warning ppl not to come here lol.

That one was more evenhanded than the NYT article, IIRC.

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Sanctioned Suicide subreddit before it was banned

 

[Julgran]

It looks like search engines aren't keen on showing content from this site, so how did you find it? I found it years ago in Google before all the campaigns against it started. It's sad, the activity on this site has dwindled. My precious online home is being threatened!

I found a suicide discussion thread on one of the biggest Swedish forums, in which Helium suicide was mentioned - that was three or four years ago, at which point I bought a large Helium tank and a valve or regulator, but I figured that it was too complicated to get right for a suicide attempt, so I started searching for more information about this method using the most frequented search engine, and so I found this forum. I kept reading posts on this forum from time to time throughout the years until I became a member nine months ago and found information about other methods, which have taken the place of Helium on my to-do list.

 

[hungry_ghost]

Used duckduckgo.

I used to be a member of suicideforums.com, but that website highly discourages pro-suicide sentiments.

Most of the people there tend to come there initially feeling depressed, make one post about their misery, and then leave and never come back.

I think most of the people here that join tend to actually stick around.

 

[chloramine]

I found out about it because of the NYT article condemning it. Once I had the name of the site I was able to type it into Google and find it, but I never happened across it when researching methods (which is something I've been doing for many years).

 

[obafgkm]

Search "partial hanging" on bing based engines, including duck duck go, it is the first result. SS is the internet authority on this method.

 

[borderlineinpain]

It looks like search engines aren't keen on showing content from this site, so how did you find it? I found it years ago in Google before all the campaigns against it started. It's sad, the activity on this site has dwindled. My precious online home is being threatened!

I was looking for places to talk about suicide and found it in a news page. I searched the site in the browser and here I am :3

 

[Celerity]

Search "partial hanging" on bing based engines, including duck duck go, it is the first result. SS is the internet authority on this method.

Bing wins this category, I guess, lol. The memes about the search engines are correct.

 

[Sakura94]

I think it must have been a news article about Shawn's death. I was browsing lostallhope for suicide methods and then remembered that article so found it easily enough after.

 

[Someone123]

I wish I could remember exactly, but I must have been doing searches on google or youtube related to suicide- I suspect it was from seeing a video on youtube about the site, but I don't know for sure,

 

[BRAINWORMS]

Google in 2020, I believe. I was already familiar with other sites like Lostallhope but I loved the community here. I think having this community has actually kept me around longer.

 

[unnoticed]

i think it was a simple google search — "painless suicide methods", or something similar. i think the first time i visited this site was february 2020. i was amazed at how understanding and accepting this community appeared to be, so i've come and lurked here every time i really felt the pressure of acting on urges ever since.

 

[indigomoon]

New York Times.