Gabriel J.X. Dance:
Yes, Daniel is a sad story.
He was a 16-year-old boy in Salt Lake City, Utah, and living with his parents, his mother and father and his younger sister. His older brother had recently gone to college. And Daniel had a stomach ailment, and it caused him great pain after eating, when he and his family were trying to figure out what the ailment was.
But Daniel took to this suicide Web site, where he really dumped all of his fears and anxieties into the Web site. He was worried that he would never be able to recover from the stomach ailment. And within days of showing up, a member of the site encouraged him to use a specific method to die, which is really tragic, because it was clear that Daniel had no idea how to take his life before coming to the site.
And, again, within days, he was introduced to this method, and, within three months, he had died on his bed, and his mom discovered him late that night. And his parents never had any idea he was on the site. They actually didn't even have an idea he was depressed.
I spoke with his best friend and his best friend's mother. Neither of them had heard anything about this site. And all of them had wished that just at any point Daniel had mentioned that he was even thinking of dying by suicide, so that they could intervene.
But this Web site doesn't really help people with interventions, as much as it helps them carry out any kind of plans they have to kill themselves.
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