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Editor, Tetsuya Kitahata, will commit suicide in a few days.

72 points| jcapote | 16 years ago |apachenews.org | reply

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[+] brown9-2|16 years ago|reply
From http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a74li/he_will_c...

-Dude posts (spams) Apache community mailing list with his scheme of fund-raising for apache http://jakarta.jp/en.pdf which is some sort of lottery scam.

-Dude gets shut down for spamming the list and trying to get acknowledgment on the thanks.xml page.

-Dude tries to argue using language technicalities.

-Dude gets shut down again, ie. he learns that donations do not equal ownership.

-Dude threatens suicide.

[+] davidw|16 years ago|reply
Yes, that more or less sums it up. In the past, he was also a sponsor of the ASF as well as a committer, so he has done good things, it just seems that he's going through some difficulties.
[+] CapitalistCartr|16 years ago|reply
His difficulties are real, apparently.

"Tetsuya, you have show the utmost lack of respect on this forum to the chairman of the organization, who in the most friendly and forgiving way attempted to nudge you away from inappropriate directions. No one else in this organization is so flexible. So your complaint falls on deaf ears."

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-community/20091...

[+] akkartik|16 years ago|reply
When this happened on the joelonsoftware forums, Joel Spolsky took it down and pointed me to this study: http://aepo-xdv-www.epo.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0031539/M00...

Threads like this should not stay online because they risk encouraging copycats.

[+] niels_olson|16 years ago|reply
That recommendation is based on some published case reports of suicide clusters, a phenomenon that has been recorded at least as far back as the Western record. The concern is directed more at repetitive, sensationalist reporting (their words). By comparison, I would say most of the comments on this thread are novel, considered, and skeptical. The more juvenile comments are identified and the posters are duly penalized. Of all the forums on the internet, the dynamics of this forum are probably most disposed toward good thinking coming out of a thread on suicide.

[edit]: a different view on suicide contagion: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=lFklgI9qb...

[+] grandalf|16 years ago|reply
Ok, I won't post it to Google Wave then ...
[+] johndevor|16 years ago|reply
Let's email him with positive thoughts...? I feel like there's not much else we can do. Maybe we can find a phone number?

[email protected]

[+] brlewis|16 years ago|reply
I just did. I wrote, "There are many things to see and enjoy in life. Do not be discouraged by something small." I hope it helps.
[+] rjett|16 years ago|reply
Dear Mr. Kitahata, Please don't kill yourself. I have no idea what you're going through right now, but I can imagine that you feel a great weight on your shoulders and you might perceive a certain hopelessness in your circumstances. Someone very close to me has at times expressed suicidal thoughts and it pangs my heart to think of a world without him. In the end, all I can do is show him love and hope he reaches out to embrace that love. I would ask that you do the same. Please read the pleas from the dozens of people writing you and know there are hundreds more out there rooting for you to take the first step in helping yourself.
[+] aupajo|16 years ago|reply
I sent an email, I hope it helps.
[+] bravura|16 years ago|reply
If this is serious, it is truly sad (in the sense of "pathetic", not "tragic"). Taking your life because of political reasons, not because there is something truly irreconcilable like bad health? What a waste...

Many people have beaten health ills. I know many young adults who beat cancer. Twelve months on chemotherapy and simultaneous months on radiation therapy. Does this really mean nothing to you? It's so different from what you feel. Alienation is a far more common feeling than the disintegration of your personal embodiment because of health...

[+] onoj|16 years ago|reply
This is an interesting post but I would suggest that comments about suicide in general are on a different discussion post. When talking about a specific individual compassion and respect is called for.
[+] pohl|16 years ago|reply
Please do not.
[+] qnrq|16 years ago|reply
"The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble."
[+] bugs|16 years ago|reply
Hopefully this is not real, otherwise I hope he chooses to do something better and less drastic.
[+] vaksel|16 years ago|reply
the people who threaten to commit suicide never go through it, especially the ones who threaten to do so publically and leave their email address. The whole "I'll take poison" and "I'll overdose on medicine" are the sure signs of a drama queen.

It's the ones who never talk about it, that usually man up to pull the trigger.

My guess is that either he is attention whoring, or he just got hacked(none of his other sites/profiles say this)

[+] niels_olson|16 years ago|reply
Middle-aged men are the most likely to give advance warning, are the most likely to carry through with that plan, and have the highest completion rate, after doctors.
[+] _pius|16 years ago|reply
I guess I don't see the point of your comment. What's the upside of you discouraging people from taking this seriously? The potential downside is rather obvious ...
[+] todd3834|16 years ago|reply
I had a friend who always used to say he was going to kill himself. I too thought he was asking for attention until he drove his truck up the curb and took out two light polls right outside my window. vaksel, you are wrong.

Ps: he survived but I can assure you it was not an attention stunt. You would have had to see the accident scene to believe me