A boy posts a message on the Internet seeking a suicide partner. A girl reads it and flies to meet him one week later. Together they jump off a 600-meter cliff. They found each other on an Internet newsgroup called alt.suicide.holiday, or ASH. Internet newsgroups are virtual discussion forums amongst people with common interests. The subject of this one is suicide. You come across thousands of letters. The unknown leave behind their open hearted life stories for us to read. Who are these people and why are they seeking each other on the Internet? What lives lay hidden behind the blue light of the computers. In ASH worlwide suicide we meet four writers of this newsgroup.
Walter Stokman
Director
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz78%
Robin's Wish69%
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple70%
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish67%
The Bridge67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
For the Love of Spock73%
Extremis69%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy58%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Maidentrip70%
Room 23761%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
HyperNormalisation74%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Looking for Richard68%
John Candy: I Like Me79%
Sherman's March65%
The Unbelievers64%
