Concert Suicide?
 

Has anyone else heard about this?

Is this a new low or what?

I'm shocked :o

I have heard TOO much about it - considering I live in St. Pete. Every news channel has been covering it for almost a week now. the news on it is starting to die down considering their show was cancelled and NO ONE in the area will book them because of legality issues. Honestly, I think it was all just a publicity stunt to get their name out there.

It has been on the news here in California too. I think it's a publicity stunt too. If it's not, the person is sick.

:mad: this far exceeds a publicity stunt. i think the group needs to check into a mental ward:mad:

This is just sick!

I have serious issues with this. While I totally respect their opinion that people should have the right to die (especially the terminally ill who are in great pain), I think this is not the way to go about getting "the word" out. It's reality "entertainment" gone seriously, seriouly wrong. Basically they view life and death as something for entertainment and shock value, not the greatest gift of all. It very much cheapens the concept of living and dying, and do not support this. Legislating morality and First Amendment rights aside, I think the City Council did the right thing.

this is disgusting. what is wrong with people???????

For what? Wanting to die without leaving their family six figures in medical bills and living the life of a vegetable?

Let's separate the issues here - Physician Assisted Suicide and a band trying to gain publicity.

The article did say the person was terminally ill and I think that means sick anyway.

Maybe that person doesn't want to live the rest of their life in constant suffering and pain?

ON STAGE!?!?!? That is absolutely the most vile thing I have heard in a very long time.

seriously, couldn't they have just urinated on the stage or something? that would have been enough.:rolleyes:

I posted the link because, as many of you know, I'm a geriatric counselor. I've seen many people at the last stage of their lives, and yes, some do want to end their lives. I do not believe in physician-assisted suicide, as the Hippocratic oath would then be meaningless.

No matter where you stand on that issue, to make someone's death into a performance is about the most evil thing I've heard of! I thnk it smacks of the horrible Holocaust films that the Nazis made while killing the Jews & other people. The members of that band must be devoid of any souls.

For wanting to make a show of their death... That is SICK!

what do the parents of the 'person' think?

Update for those of you that might want to know. The band is still planning on going through with this. HOWEVER, what they are now proposing is that the band will be one place and the guy who wants to committ suicide will be somewhere else where no one will know but himself so that they can't be considered a part of the suicide. It's also reported that they plan on doing everything over the internet.

I think they have a right to do it, and I think they have a right to do it on stage. To shut them down because they are speaking out on an issue you don't agree with is a violation of the first amendent.

Just when I think that society has stooped down several levels, this stoops down to an even lower level. What a bunch of sickos!!!


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The reason they can't do it on stage is because it's considered a felony.Here's a link to the latest info about what's going on. Here's yet another link. I hope you find these links helpful.

Thanks for the links.

I think they should stop "trying to save his life." People have a right to die whenever they want.

I hate publicity stunts that are like that.

There was one ine PHX, Az like 3 or 4 years ago for this radio station ( a hip/hop ghetto station) where they were going to a local community college and going up in a helicopper and drop 1,000 baby turkey (its was thanksgiving weekend) and who ever collected the most of the dead babies would get a prize. So every one was so mad. But I went there (wearing my animal have rights too shirt) and I saw them drop the turkeys.

They were those hand turkeys (where you trace your hand and the tumb is the head) and they were painted the stations colors. But they were so pathetic. I then relized that station could not afford the animal cruelities penalities and the law suites.

Its was just a stunt, and I guess it work, becuase every one was tunning in to them (right before rating season) and so many people showed up to the stadium.

Christia