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It's rather hard to remember in these days of the Internet, but you could find plenty of information about dark and evil things like bomb recepies and suicide methods through other ways. I knew the pros and cons about four or five different methods when I was a young teen even though I wasn't that angsty.
Still, suicide can be contagious. At least here, the papers never reports about suicides, because hearing about suicides apparently inspires some people to go and commit suicide themselves. So in that way, 'suicide communities' can be a bad thing. Especially for someone who is mentally unstable, it's hard enough for sane people to properly weigh the relevance of stuff on the Internet.
I do feel sorry for her parents, and I understand why they are lashing out at the online group. I lost a friend to suicide, and that hurt more than anything I'd ever felt before. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like to lose a child like that.
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