This is getting into kind of a sketchy legal area, at least in the USA. I am not an attorney, but it seems to me anyone participating in something like this is opening themselves up to some kind of criminal charges as an accessory to murder. Maybe I'm overreacting, if there's any attorneys on this site it would be good to get their opinion.
It would probably also be a really bad look for this site, if anyone cares about that sort of thing at this point. I don't see this as encouraging somebody to end their life, but our friends in the media would definitely spin it that way.
This is personally not something I'd ever do, but to each their own. Definitely mask your IP if you do nothing else.
It's a type of manslaughter in many states in US if you do a planned double suicide pact but only ONE goes through with the plan. And ONLY if it is proven beyond a reasonable doubt the person who pulled out of the pact was NEVER going to go through with it. But only said they would to get the other person to do it. In many states there are laws against strongly encouraging the suicidal person to complete the act after they say"I think I want help" or "I don't think I want to continue". That's why that one girl went to prison in Pennsylvania I believe the state was she encouraged and harassed her bf to continue his suicide even after he said numerous times "I have doubt".
But she was sentence to a short prison term because it was a lesser charge of manslaughter via intimidation and not seeking help for the boy.
Not saying it's any less fucked up just pointing out the fake double suicide pact will send ur ass away for much longer.
I only know this because I had to take a basic law class for my degree.
As for being a voyher of a suicide. That is some charges in itself. For content violations among the fcc for some reason if they want to push it and some states charge it as a possible manslaughter. But it's an extremely hard case to prove because the argument is "I didn't know it was real". Has protected people before when charged.
Some prosecutors have tried pushing it under viewing kiddie porn. Distributing snuff content and or actual sexual assaults among internet users. Citing the act of viewing and or distribution violates some kind of decency internet law or something.
But have been shot down.
This is getting into kind of a sketchy legal area, at least in the USA. I am not an attorney, but it seems to me anyone participating in something like this is opening themselves up to some kind of criminal charges as an accessory to murder. Maybe I'm overreacting, if there's any attorneys on this site it would be good to get their opinion.
It would probably also be a really bad look for this site, if anyone cares about that sort of thing at this point. I don't see this as encouraging somebody to end their life, but our friends in the media would definitely spin it that way.
This is personally not something I'd ever do, but to each their own. Definitely mask your IP if you do nothing else.
And to add you can be tracked eventually if someone wants to find you regardless if you mask an ip address.
Even if you are stealing wifi from your neighbor or using their shit to cover your ass. People can find the original source and figure out where everything originated from. Idk the details but I know alot of hackers. They explained and showed me that fact.
Also by trying to conceal yourself makes you look bad. Say someone wants to take the case to court and they say " so and so didn't want to help comfort J. Doe in their last minute on earth. They just wanted to get off on some sexual suicide kick or feel powerful playing God by encouraging them to die This opinion is coming from the fact that they tried to conceal their identity by masking their IP address and scrambling such and such."
We can all honestly say here that's bullshit for atleast 98% of us here.
I leave 2% because I'm not naive but kind. I know there are some freaks on here who do have a death/suicide fetish.
But it can open the grounds for doubt by concealing your ID.
Yes we all want anonymity for this particular decision. But we all also are aware of how people always want to twist things. So I'm just tossing my unsolicited two cents in.
Now please destroy and bitch at me.