Sing me to sleep:
When her boyfriend dumped her, webcam girl and electronic artist Stacy Pershall
decided to end it all; so she posted a suicide note to her online journal,
moved her webcam into the bathroom and swallowed lots of pills,
right in front of the camera. Horrified (or possibly
titiliated, depending on what kind of crowd it was) onlookers watched her pass
out, slumped over her toilet, and then police and paramedics taking her away.
Ms. Pershall survived this, her second suicide attempt at least, and probably
got a lot of web hits in the deal. Meanwhile, a somewhat sarky
parody site has opened,
giving a vaguely misanthropic, Social Darwinist account of the incident.
"I often find that people who are very heavily involved in Net 'culture' such as the cam girls take themselves entirely too seriously. I believe the Net has become a haven for people who are socially inept."