

Strangers seek out partners to meet face to face and kill themselves together. On the site’s public forums, in live chats and through private messaging, they discuss hanging, poison, guns and gas. The four young members were among tens of thousands around the world who have been pulled in.
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This one - started in March 2018 by two shadowy figures calling themselves Marquis and Serge - provides explicit directions on how to die. Most suicide websites are about prevention. Soon after joining, each of them was dead. And Daniel Dal Canto, a 16-year-old in Salt Lake City, shared his fears that an undiagnosed stomach ailment might never get better. Roberta Barbos, a 22-year-old student at the University of Glasgow, first posted after a breakup, writing that she was “unbearably lonely.” Shawn Shatto, 25, described feeling miserable at her warehouse job in Pennsylvania. “I know it is all just a distraction to blow time until the end.” “Any enjoyment or progress I make in my life simply comes across as forced,” he wrote on the site after signing up.

Searching online, he found a website about suicide. As Matthew van Antwerpen, a 17-year-old in suburban Dallas, struggled with remote schooling during the pandemic last year, he grew increasingly despondent.
