Minnesota Man Charged With Being More Evil Than Ozzy Osbourne
If Ozzy Osbourne can be sued, albeit unsuccessfully, for encouraging suicide with a song about alcoholism, then William F. Melchert-Dinkel is in big, big trouble. A 47-year-old licensed nurse from Faribault, Minnesota, Melchert-Dinkel has been charged with two counts of illegally aiding suicide. Prosecutors say that he sought out depressed people on website chatrooms, engaged them in conversation under false pretenses and pushed them to kill themselves-sometimes even making a suicide pact. One that he very rudely would not keep.
The dark story goes like this.
"In March 2008, Nadia Kajouji, 18, disappeared from her college in Ottawa. The Canadian authorities investigating her disappearance searched her laptop and discovered that she had been talking online with a person who used the screen name Cami. In e-mail messages, the authorities say, the pair agreed to a pact in which Ms. Kajouji would jump from a bridge into a river (to avoid, at Cami's suggestion, the police say, creating a mess) and Cami would hang herself a day later. In April 2008, Ms. Kajouji's body was found in the Rideau River."
He asked me to take a long walk on a short pier.
And somehow Garrison Keillor still walks the streets.
LOL cami, you really slay me.
"I bet you think this song is about you."
That second to last sentence in the block quote is more clause than sentence, now. The Darth Vader of sentences.
You're right! You might even say it is the "Santa" of sentences. (If you wanted to get booed off the stage.)
Seriously though, this is really fucked up. I know it doesn't need to be said, because we all hopefully realize this, but nevertheless, as someone who's dealt with suicide in my family (and I'm sure most of us have some kind of connection to it in some way, as it is very widespread), what this fuckhead did was truly the lowest of the low. Someone in a suicidal state-of-mind CAN be talked down much of the time, as research has shown (and why so much funding goes to suicide chat lines that are manned 24-hours a day). For him to go give them the extra push – he's not just preaching to the choir… he very well could have been the added extra incentive that pushed these people to make the final decision. I hope he goes away and rots for a long time.
I agree. I'm not sure how this isn't plain murder. "Illegally aiding suicide" sounds like, you know, giving your cancer-stricken father an extra pain pill here and there. This should be something else.
I agree. The lowest of the low. Somehow the false representation bothers me the worst. The thought that these people, at what must be the worst, loneliest point of their lives, are acting upon the belief that they've found a companion, even in this dark, dark sort of companionship, and they go through with this terrible, all too final, unreversable act, and then the companion they thought they had turns out to be false… The stuff of horror movies. Didn't Hannibal Lector, now that I'm thinking about it, talk the guy next to him into killing himself in "The Silence of the Lambs?" Yeesh.
Oh my, you're right. He is Hannibal Lector. I can only hope he gets one of those glass-encased cells. And a face muzzle.