[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Malaysian teenager who posted an Instagram poll asking if she should live or die took her life after a majority of respondents said yes, sparking calls for an investigation."69 percent of your friends said you suck."
The unidentified 16-year-old from Kuching in Sarawak died after posting the poll Monday on the Facebook-owned picture sharing platform.
"Oh. I guess I should kill myself then."
Police have classified the case as “sudden death.”
"How sudden?"
"Well, pretty quick."
“Really Important, Help Me Choose D/L,” she wrote, according to a report on the news portal Astro Awani, with the letters “D” and “L” apparently referring to “die” or “live” respectively.
I'da gone with "dipshit" or "lunatic."
Sixty-nine percent of votes cast were in favor of her ending her life, with just 31 percent against, local media quoted police as saying.
Or dipshit. Probably most people would have guessed that.
Lawmaker Ramkarpal Singh called for a probe into the circumstances of her death.
"Did she fall or was she pushed? F/P?"
"Foolish or Pathetic?"
"Either or."
“I urge the authorities... to investigate the social media accounts of the victim and the circumstances that led to her death to prevent further abuse of social media in similar circumstances in the future,” he said.
Since this isn't the first time this kind of stoopidity has happened, that "prevention" thing isn't working too well. Now, if you rounded up everyone who voted "D" and hung them by the neck all in a twitching row, that might represent a measure of prevention. Even if they were just strung up by the 'nads or bazooms it might have a measure of utility.
“It is important that incidents such as this do not repeat themselves,” he added.