My Death Space

Originally Posted by lemonmanko

its sad really almost all of those are sucide but the wierd thing is that all of those sucides are mostly 13 - 16-ish kids...

Let's consider MySpace's demographic for a moment, Sherlock. You don't see a lot of balding, middle-aged people on there. They've got better things to do, and if suicide is one of those things, they've learned to just go get it done without whining to the internet about how the the music of Green Day was the only thing that kept them going this long.

Most of the suicide pages are from teenagers because MySpace's constituency is - surprise - mostly teenagers!!



Anyhow, the site's kinda interesting if you're like me and have a rather morbid curiosity. Death doesn't upset me, so I can read the accounts with moderate detachment.

Of course, I was momentarily shaken when I saw, upon the second page, the MyDeathSpace obituary of a girl from my own town. I read about her accidental death last month, in the local papers. I worked with her older brother in a Perkins restaurant several years ago.

Kinda shocking to unexpectedly come face to face with a death report of someone who actually had relevance to my own life, instead of random people from across the country.

But this won't stop me from reading about the other deaths. It's fascinating to find a collection of people I'll never meet.

How ya doing, buddy?