Reporting suicides (Florida Web cam story)

I'm sure we've had this discussion here before, but this new story probably merits a revisitation.

OK, apparently, a 19-year-old Florida kid killed himself on a Web cam yesterday after threatening to do so in an Internet bodybuilding forum.

Fox News has a story online, along with several international publications:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455784,00.html

Not a peep, however, from the Sun-Sentinel, the Miami Herald, etc., etc.

As this seems to be the real deal and not a hoax ... how would you handle it?

 

Much longer story here...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/MindMoodNews/story?id=6306126&page=1



This is absolutely horrible.

 

This is going to start a new trend.
Where's Kevorkian when you need him?

 

This thread is useless without pictures video.

 

Really? Don't be an asshole.
Time and place.

 

Suicides in themselves are not newsworthy. They are only newsworthy when there is another factor involved -- either the person committing the act or the method thereof. This clearly falls into the latter category and absolutely should be covered.

 

Actually, right here: (DETROIT NEWS CRIBS WITH JACK KEVORKIAN - NO I AM NOT KIDDING!!!!)

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081005/METRO/810050311

 

Or if it was a person of prominence.

 

Which would be "the person committing the act."

 

The Doc.
That sick fuck was taking people to the great beyond and leaving them in droves back in the day.

 

In a way you're correct because suicide is against the law.

 

What?