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Spaniard kills self while on Facebook

Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 11.58
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BANGKOK - A Spanish man who was working in Thailand committed suicide while surfing a popular social network website early Thursday morning, police said.

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Pol Lt Col Apichan Swasdibutra, an investigating officer at Huay Kwang station, said police were informed that a foreigner had died in an apartment on Ratchadaphisek Road.

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banmebkk
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Discussion 6 : 13 Jul 2012 at 11.226
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Sad news, may he rest in peace.
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Discussion 5 : 12 Jul 2012 at 22.045
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Certainly, this is sad. But it is also a fact that a rational human being, a person, made a decision that was his to make, and acted on that decision. He seems to have harmed no one else directly, so no wrong was committed.
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Discussion 4 : 12 Jul 2012 at 19.554
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I also was friends with and had worked with Juan here in BKK, truly devastating news, such a nice guy :-(
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Discussion 3 : 12 Jul 2012 at 19.493
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Sorry martinm, understand how you feel; I lost a friend many years ago (no Facebook at this time) he said bye-bye calling me and others.
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Discussion 2 : 12 Jul 2012 at 17.412
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All,

I'm a close friend of Juan and would like to make some comments...
This article should be amended, as he did not commit suicide in front of his friends on Facebook - you cannot broadcast with your webcam, as far as I know...

Anyway, I was chatting with him as usual and then he confessed me his intentions of taking his life. I tried hard to change his mind, got in touch with some of his friends living in Bangkok asking them to rush to his place (I live in Europe, so Thailand is a bit far away), phoned the Spanish Embassy and even their emergency phone (they didn't move a finger...)... but Juan (or Juancho, as friends used to call him) said farewell, went offline and left us forever by taking a lethal dose of Pentobarbital (you can see a pic -his last post- of the glass on his Facebook wall), a drug used for human euthanasia (among others).

We all regret his loss and we'll miss him.

Thanks and regards.
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Discussion 1 : 12 Jul 2012 at 16.241
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One cannot kill oneself on Facebook. He may have had a browser window open when he committed suicide, but he could have had a browser window open to any of a billion web sites.
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