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  ''“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”''
  <span style="float: right; color: cornflowerblue">― Aeschylus, father of tragedy</span>
  <span style="float: right; color: cornflowerblue">― Proverbs 31:8–9</span>
<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold">In loving memory of pro-choice communities' members whose choice made us stronger.</div>

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― Proverbs 31:8–9

Losing someone is difficult. Every now and then, a family who has lost their loved one desperatly tries to tie a meaning to their loss. They persuade legislators to pass bills whose purpose is limiting the freedom of speech. Such bills are unlikely to be enacted for the following reasons:


Preventing suicide is a government interest; however, restricting speech is not the least restrictive method of achieving it. Because of the hollow that restricting speech will created when professionals won’t be able to talk or communicate with those who need help to live, such statues will cause loss of more lives rather than saving them. Furthermore, the overinclusiveness and boradness of such statues will put an end to medical professions, especially mental health, altogether. Suicide Wiki is filled with lawful documents—written in a subtle language—including police reports, coroner reports, scientific papers, medical literature, and newspapers that educate, if not encourage, individuals to commit suicide.



Suzanne Michelle Gonzales


Federal legislation was crafted[Archive] in response to Suzanne's suicide after she got instructions on the Internet. “I would be more than happy, overjoyed if this bill was passed into law and that it was never used, [because] it was a deterrent,” said Mike Gonzales, whose daughter's death is behind House Resolution 853—also known as the Suzanne Gonzales Suicide Prevention Act of 2009. U.S. Rep. Wally Herger, R-Chico, introduced the bill February 9 after a previous version failed in committee.

The Gonzaleses, who say they've identified the person responsible, became frustrated when Florida police and lawyers told them they had no recourse but a civil lawsuit, something they couldn't afford. In the course of their campaign for HR 853, Mike Gonzales said he'd heard concerns the law would limit free speech, an allegation both he and Herger reject, in their mind.

“I don't think this really adds anything to make it a crime to assist somebody to commit suicide,” said Peter Scheer, a lawyer and journalist. State laws already address assisted suicide, Scheer said, and Herger's bill would not trump those statutes. “It's not any more of an Internet bill than most of the millions of federal statutes that are predicated on use of interstate commerce,” Scheer added, noting that communication by text-messaging, telephone, e-mail, letters and other means also is covered. “This law looks like it was written in 1969,” Scheer said. “There's absolutely nothing in there that would date it after the invention of the personal computer.” Calling the law “superfluous,” he said it's unlikely to pass.


Suzanne Gonzales' posts: [1] [2] Obituaries: [3] [4]

Shawn Alexandra Shatto

Following a battle of depression, on 22 May 2019, Shawn Alexandra Shatto (username: Kakabushi) murdered herself by proxy; that is, a half of herself killed the other half by proxy (commonly known as suicide)–and she was given the choice. The choice came from Sanctioned Suicide forum that comfort her on her voyage. Shawn’s parents, Chip and Jacqueline Bieber of Newberry Township, grieved over their loss of their daughter. Being horrified of their daughter's choice, the Biebers went to the state Capitol on 19 September 2019 to urge state lawmakers to pass legislation that would impose stiffer penalties on people convicted of aiding or encouraging when at the time of the offense the person who committed suicide is under 18 years of age or has an intellectual disability.

York County Coroner Pam Gay said Shatto died from ingesting “an easily obtainable compound.” The coroner's office has ruled the death a suicide. Coroner Gay also said she had heard about such websites and that such things, as a macabre part of her job, shouldn’t shock her, but “it’s shocking to me.” “It’s a very disturbing case,” Gay said. “How can people do that and have a conscience and go to bed? It’s just disturbing.” Gay questioned why others online didn't do more to get her mental health help that she had refused herself.

Shawn’s parents described “it” a different way. “It’s sick,” her step-father said, using an ambiguous pronoun. “Not one person said there is another way,” Jackie Bieber, Shawn's mother, told the York Daily Record—implying that Sanctioned Suicide stands with mass shooting. “It's like a cult.”


'Shawn's Law' was the second attempt to impose restrictions on pro-choice communities, but to no avail.

Obituaries: [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]


Callie Alix Lewis

Callie Lewis (username: Zanexx), 24, from Dover, was using an online suicide forum, sanctionedsuicide.net (the forum now appears under the Internet address sanctionedsuicide.com). Through the forum she was able to engage in discussions with other pro-choice members and obtain tips how to liberate herself from the oppression of mental health worker to avoid being sectioned under the Mental Health Act and how to perfect the methods of leaving her life that she had been considering. She was enabled by the tips provided through the forum to outwit the frustrated mental health prosecution thereafter leave behind her life. Leaving behind her own life annoyed entitled anti-choicers.

New censorship laws—namely, Regulation 28 report, otherwise known as a prevention of future death report, regarding pro-choice suicide forums—prevents reaching the light of those who continued their journey to us. This censorship law was came to attention on a jury hearing about the death of a Sanctioned Suicide's member Callie Alix Lewis who chose to not commit to life. Coroner Harding said, “[The website] enabled Callie to frustrate the mental health process, and provided her with information regarding the means with which she ended her life.” The truth is Callie was determined to kill herself. She twice extended her stay because her small, green, pop-up tent couldn't be used as a gas chamber for charcoal-burning suicide method, so she went back by train to return and exchange her tent.



Obituary: [10]

Anonymous Users


Last year more than 100 families claimed that online tutorials played a major part in the suicide of their loved ones, according to Papyrus. Papyrus chief executive Ged Flynn said, “Showing people methods of taking their lives makes it more likely that vulnerable people will do it. The Government needs to act now.” That was another exoneration attempt on the side of anti-choicers who offer no evidences, witnesses, or proofs.





  • Sean Sweeney, Deadly Speech: Encouraging Suicide and Problematic Prosecutions, 67 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 941 (2017) [Full Text: 1|2|3|4]
  • Charles Adside III, The Innocent Villain: Involuntary Manslaughter by Text, 52 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 731 (2019) [Full Text: 1|2|3|4]