She’s Going To Kill Herself In 90 Days…
Tuesday, February 12, 2008Posted in: Adventures with Blog people
Meet 90 Day Jane. I came across the link to her blog via Rowena.
This is what it says on her profile:
I am going to kill myself in 90 days. What else should i say? This blog is not a cry for help or even to get attention. It’s simply a public record of my last 90 days in existence. I’m not depressed and nothing extremely horrible has lead me to this decision. But, does it really have to? I mean, as an atheist I feel life has no greater purpose.
My generation has had no great depression, no great war and our biggest obstacle is beating Halo 3. So, if I feel like saying “game over”, why can’t I? Anyway, I hope you enjoy my thoughts as the clock runs out. Also, if blogspot takes this down before i’m gone just go to www.90dayjane.com. Please don’t attempt to “help” me. If you want to truly help, please send me ideas on how to do the deed. thx-Jane
Not sure what to think really. If it’s not an attention thing, then why blog about it? And why leave the comments open?
If this is about calling attention onto herself, well, she’s getting it. In spades. Her last post got 439 comments, but I can’t bring myself to read any of them. Life’s too damn short.
I may come across as a little unsympathetic, but how totally self-indulgent can a person be to want to write about the days leading up to her proposed suicide, on a public blog? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just buy a personal diary? I just hope nobody reading her posts gets the same idea.
I imagine that at the end of the 90 days, she’ll just start another blog elsewhere. It’s not like we’ll ever know, whether or not she did the deed. All she has to do is stop posting. Unless of course she does top herself, and the papers get hold of the news. In which case, the government will ostensibly call for network sites like Blogger to police the people who blog with them more effectively. Like it’s their fault that there are crazy folks roaming the internet.
Whatever happened to the good old days of keeping things like planning a suicide, private?
I blame Gisele Bundchen.