A 21 year old Swedish man by the name of Marcus Jannes committed suicide on a Swedish forum board Flashback.org.

The suicide announcement that Marcus Jannes made came only minutes before he put the noose around his neck.

He told board readers that he was a 21 year old guy with his own apartment and good money from government. He said he suffered from Asperger syndrome (high functioning autism) and had poor social skills that made him a lonely person.

Prior to suicide, he doped himself up with painkillers (100mg dexofen and 1500mg paracetamol) and tested self strangulation. He alluded to experiencing problems at school, but admitted that he had a good upbringing and had a rather good life. At around the same time, he also updated his Facebook status to say life was "just too difficult", and that he was going to kill himself.

He then set up his webcam with a program that dumps an image captured every 2 seconds onto an FTP server and provided the IP port and login credentials right before the initiation of suicide.
People responded to his post almost immediately. Some offered messages of hope However, other users posted messages saying they didn't believe him, wishing him luck with his attempt, and calling him an attention whore and a troll.

In an earlier post, Jannes said that he had been feeling suicidal for about six months, but was too scared to actually attempt anything until he tried to strangle himself with his own hands. In response to questions, he stated that he was using a network cable to strangle himself because he didn't have any rope, but he was worried that the cable would not be strong enough to take his weight.

A short while later, at 1:06 p.m., Jannus posted the FTP server URL and login details, and stated that he needed to hurry up because, "I'm beginning to feel that I might change my mind." At this point, people who logged on to the server found a series of still images taken every two seconds, showing a young man dressed in sweatpants and t-shirt, in his apartment, hanging network cable from a doorway.

The Södertälje police state that they were first alerted to the incident at 1:44 p.m. At 2:06 p.m., the image feeds show two police officers charging into the apartment and releasing the cable from around Jannus' neck. They begin administering CPR. Two minutes later, two paramedics arrive, and they take over CPR while one of the officers looks around the room at cables, the back of a flat-screen television set and the computer.

That's when the images finally stop being uploaded.


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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Swedish_man_uses_webcam_to_broadcast_suicide_live_on_internet

http://www.thelocal.se/29566/20101012/