Suicide clubs lure 20 thousand Russian teenagers

4. With each year more and more teenagers decide to commit suicide under the pressure of various suicide websites. Teenagers tend to depend greatly on their peers’ opinion and decisions. If one teenager decides to commit suicide, even for a joke, it is probable that his impressionable friends might want to do the same. These websites, however, strictly follow the law. In each website all the rules are listed in the way that each one that signs up needs to sign agreement policy. The rules forbid to specify the methods of committing suicide, to persuade others to die and so on. So, it turns out that the websites are quite legal. However, in reality these rules are not followed.

For the last 30 years the rate of teenage suicides has multiplied 30 times. Some scientists predict that by 2020 more than 1, 5 million teenagers will commit suicide annually. Russia takes the second place in the list of countries with greatest suicide rate. In 2007 only almost 3 thousand teenagers from 5 to 20 laid hands on themselves.

There are 10 most popular suicide websites operating in Russia. Each one has about 2 thousand teenagers signed up.

Translated by Lena Ksandinova