WARNING: Picture of Dead Kevin Whitrick, Britain’s First Cyber Suicide
March 27th 2007
Before you scroll down any further, take care that you might not be able to stomach what you’re about to see.
A father-of-two hanged himself live over the internet in Britain’s first ‘cyber suicide’.
Kevin Whitrick, 42, took his life after being goaded by dozens of chatroom users from across the world who initially believed he was play acting.
But as they watched in horror, Mr Whitrick climbed onto a chair, smashed through a ceiling and then hanged himself with a piece of rope.
What an attention whore right till the end. I guess that’s his biggest achievement, becoming the first cyber suicide in Britain. Sorry, I think the world title has been taken a long time ago.
Kevin Whitrick
Last night it emerged that Mr Whitrick had been suffering from depression after being badly injured in a car crash last year.
Friends said that the breakdown of his marriage with wife, Paula – with whom he had 12-year-old twins – and the recent death of his father had also been causing him some distress.
Mr Whitrick told users of web-chat site PalTalk what he was going to do two hours before he killed himself on Wednesday night.
He was logged on with around 50 other users to a special “insult” chatroom where people “have a go at each other”.
Today distraught users of the site said that they felt sick and had previously thought the web broadcast was a hoax.
They confirmed Mr Whitrick told friends in the internet chat room of his plans to kill himself but, thinking he was joking, they egged him on telling him to make sure the his webcam was on.
Mr Whitrick, using the user-name Shyboy-17-1, switched on his webcam and went ahead with his grisly plan.
Normally, I do feel pity for people who rather take the easy way out due to depression. But no matter how hard I try I can’t seem to squeeze an ounce of sympathy for Kevin Whitrick. Yeah, he’s dead and he’s left his two kids, likely traumatised for the rest of their lives but really, how can you feel anything nice for someone so fooking stupid?
Here’s a screen shot of his stupidity.
Someone, please pass Mr and Mrs. Whitrick the Darwin Award!
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