Who's to say that implosion isn't a painful death? All indicators point to excrutiating pain.

CYST!

Completely off topic os suicide... but does anyone see a similarity between the photo of this thing and the device on the Event Horizon? If I see an eyeless
Sam Neill, I am out of here!

MorganRW

@BiZarRroBALlmeR: Could you even witness it? I mean, if the light can't reach your eyes, you really wouldn't witness anything...

I do feel bad for anyone in such a tenuous mental state that the LHC doomsday predictions would push you over the edge. That being said, I also agree that it's not the fault of the LHC or any of its assosciated parties.

m4ximusprim3

I just talked to a guy in India that said I couldn't install Vista 32bit with a OE licence for 64bit. After procuring a Vista install disc it worked perfectly. Goes to show you, them Indian's can be crazy.

fastm3driver

@Moonshadow101: Exactly

HJTravels

JackTheTripper

I would think that getting consumed by an expanding black hole would be far more fascinating than ingesting pesticide.

EBone

I think I would like to witness death by black hole. Although it poses a contradiction with the whole" light at the end of the tunnel" belief.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@Moonshadow101:
YES! Someone said it!

duuktoprock

@92BuickLeSabre depression or not shes an idiot, just b.c you know poeple with issues doesnt excuse her exsistance, or lack there of as of now...

demiwashere

Why would you do this and deny yourself the pleasure of knowing that France was consumed by the black hole before you were?

GiltProto

If you start to think about all things that can kill you in your everyday life, you will probabily go insane and might consider suicide.

Life is to live in risk...but...who cares?

@spazztastic: Thats the typical "I (think) know it all" attitude that the rest of the world hates.

SewerShark

There was probably some previous mental illness leading up to this, though anything is possible in this world, including crazy teenage suicides...

knyghtryda

@92BuickLeSabre: A predisposition to become clinically depressed can certainly be genetic. I accept the natural selection argument as valid.

OtterKing

@92BuickLeSabre: You're right. i think that the biggest stuppidity here is the media making it seem like her suicide was the fault of the LHC. (don't worry Giz, nothing personal). i think, as you do, that she has more stuff going on, and that while this might have been a factor, the minute possibiliy of the end of the world did not make a perfectly healthy person kill herself. everyone likes sensationalist news.

Alfonzo

wow, I wander if she knew the chances of a astroid killing us all when we sleep?

JackMatt

remember y2k

oxweeblexo

It's India. A lot of the people are still in the bronze age.

spazztastic

I rather kill myself to be sucked in...well, depends who gonna suck...o.O

SewerShark

yeah, while this is a tragedy (mostly because it was damn silly), i gotta agreed with moonshadow. sort of like pascal's gambit. if she's right and she kills herself, okay, small gain, she dies on her own terms. if she's right and she doesn't kill herself, (debatable) small loss. but if she's wrong and she doesn't kill herself, HUGE gain, and if she's wrong and she kills herself (now) HUGE loss. so not killing herself is the logical choice.

Alfonzo

@Moonshadow101: Just sayin' you're a douchebag? Indeed you were.

I'm willing to bet that there was more going on here for her.
It's not hard to imagine a level of clinical depression where the thought of the annihilation of all existence just makes you want to die. The rational connection that someone not suffering would make (just wait until the annihilation then) doesn't even enter the mind in any meaningful way.

The two aren't even connected as events with the same outcome. One is a powerful symbol of meaningless and nothingness; the other is an attempt to release oneself from life.

92BuickLeSabre

This is ridiculous. I, honestly, did not think anyone was taking the "End of The World" theories seriously. (Except maybe a few delusional callers to Coast to Coast AM.)

I was apparently very mistaken.

falandil

I'll take vaporization for $500, Alex.

shorty63136

She wanted to die on her tems?

Fuzi Lojak

Natural Selection.

Just sayin'

Moonshadow101

What would be funny is if they started airing false statements about the LHC having created a world sucking black hole. Akin to the 1938 War of the World Brodcasts.

RyaninCalgary

It is bad journalism to assume that a black hole would painlessly vaporize you. Back it up with some facts, a la live blog.

13:46: The particles are running around the track
13:48: Something's happening!
13:51: AGHGHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

e-friend

what is it about a TEST RUN that gets people scared? obviously the media overexaggerated

ford4life

I think it had more to do with her being a Vonage tech support person.

CEOself

Hmmm....was she hot? Know where they buried the body? No reason, just curious....

grayskyz

My theory is her parents killed her over an outrageous cell phone bill, and came up with the whole "suicide over LHC Doomsday Prediction" as an alibi.

frigg

@Nickbee: Agreed, was the first thing I thought when I read the headline.

Finstern

@92BuickLeSabre: apparently there's quite a few of us douchebags. don't get me wrong this is a tragedy ... but it's also a comedy; a tragicomedy if you will.

Paradise

Hahaha, its called natural selection.

crazy0000

I'm sorry for the girl, but that was kinda stupid.

Even if the world did end, she had a more painful death the way she went.

But I'm willing to bet she had way more problems than only the LHC thing alone.

LHC, Nostradamus, y2k, 2012, meteorite collision... anything would do.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@Alfonzo: Sorry, didn't completely read the post you were responding to. We are on the same page....

USMarty

Thank goodness for a complete lack of context, or this might not have been newsworthy at all.

fnc

@spazztastic: Really? The Bronze Age? A depressed girl can watch a TV in the bronze age? What a dickheaded remark.

ALT

Someone call the Darwin awards.. I think we have a new category on our hands here.

Nickbee

Apparently she was not a Giz reader either....

aec007

Crackpot Alarmists: 1
Impressionable Children: 0

macegr

Epic Failure.

Seinosuke

@Alfonzo: That's assuming that she was a perfectly healthy person...

Personally, it seems like she was looking for a reason more than being legitimately upset about the 10^-17 chance that it might happen. If blowing up while shaving is a 10^-11 possibility I mean come on..

USMarty

Wow, what an idiot. Darwin would be proud.

Lev_Astov

Awe damn it!!! We never had time to give her, her SIGN!!!!

However, this doesn't suprise me. It wasn't TO LONG AGO (in the grand scheme of things) that we KILLED PEOPLE for thinking the world was round and that the Earth went around the SUN. Human being are "fucking stupid" by default. Until we learn better. So I guess her father pretty much has himself to blame right? Or do they follow (our) American beliefs and feel parents ARE NOT responsible for their childs edu-ma-ca-shun?

JEmlay

I hate to be the guy who says "blame the media", but was it really necessary for EVERY article and report to throw in "but some might say it will create black holes that could destroy the earth."?

crazydave_w

How sad. This is why we need to have better schools people! Otherwise it's just up to the stupid masses to get it wrong. One girl's reaction is not the vast majority of the reactions, it's just the saddest.

whiteknight

I wouldn't mind being reduced to a singularity, Giselle Bundchen would be there, right?

Secret Agent Man

sorry for the disrespect, but this girl was a jackass.

jgeezy24

I convinced a friend to have sex ¨just in case ¨ world ended :)

lolec

"Spaghettification"
[en.wikipedia.org] should happen, not vaporization. I would also use the term discoherence as all meaningful relationships (information) are(is) lost as objects meet the event horizon.

DeadWriter

@crazydave_w:

Yes, it was necessary. Why? Because to those of us here in, you know, modern times it was FUNNY. Maybe not guffaw funny but nervous laughter funny.

This makes it less funny sure, but you can't adjust the world for the few crazies.

Alchemistmerlin

Chances are that a blackhole would be created so fast and you would stretch into it pretty fast thus snapping you apart in milliseconds. If the black whole was far away you would "float' into it and freeze, then suffocate leaving the atmosphere. Then, the strechy part and so on. There's a ton of info on blackholes, c'mon people.

grayskyz

@frigg: Yeah, there's something more to this story. Even depressed, afraid-of-being-sucked-into-the-highly-improbably-black-hole 16 year-olds don't drink pesticide over it. My money is on forced-marriage or being sold off to a brothel.

Matthew_Maurice

This is really sad. I knew better, and yet from all the rumors and press BS that was flying around, even I had a bit of doubt about it myself. I hope the next time all you PhDWtFr's and media people start throwing your theories back and forth that you think about people who dont know and who might be scared.
Scared to death.

Curves

@Paradise: Wait, so are you're saying there are a ton of douchebags among the Gizmodo commentariat? Noooooooooooo.

92BuickLeSabre

People suffering from major depression, as I did for many years, are often obsessed with death. Generally, it's not 'obsessed with death' in a 'kill them all' sense, but a suicidal one. When I was at my worst, I would often watch apocalyptic films (When the wind blows, Threads, The day after et cetera). An obsession with the end of everything is common.

This girl (probably) did not kill herself because of the LHC... she killed herself because she was horribly depressed. She may have used the LHC as an excuse and may have believed that excuse, but when you're that depressed, logic goes out the window (not to mention that she was 16, not exactly in the logical period of life).

If, when I was in the depths of my depression, one of which periods was at that same age, I was told and convinced (being impressionable) that my family and loved ones were going to die, I might not have been able to handle it.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this was just some idiot who made a stupid impulsive decision (though the "inconsolable" description sounds like depression to me). Maybe she wasn't mentally ill and depressed but just retarded. Maybe, but I doubt it.

In conclusion, you're all assholes. And yes, I mean that. Giz mods, I know namecalling is against the rules but honestly, commenters making fun of a sad little girl who killed herself don't quite qualify for decency in my book. Sometimes, this place seems like some dumb forum full of pubescent teenage boys with blue balls who compete to see who can be the biggest dick and say the worst, most despicable thing. Thankfully not often.

--
Naomi

nagumi

Ummmm

Who said it would be painless???

krasnoderevshik

@DeadWriter: That is exactly what I was thinking. Strange no one else seemed to think that.

EricLecarde

I think someone just might have one themselves a Darwin Award!

SgtToastie

What makes it worse is that Google's promoting the suck-into-the-abyss thing.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

I'd have to agree with Mr. 92BuickLeSabre. Probably more going on in her life to the point that the concept of world destruction (no matter how obviously absurd the chances are (this time)) was more than enough to push her to do something foolish.

When sentient beings from other worlds check in on us after we're gone, they'll not even begin to think that we died from Large Hadron Colliding. Instead they'll notice all of the stupid things we've done on impulse. They'll say it's sad that we never got to see that it's full of stars.

Human Bomb Committed Solaricide

Natural selection at its finest!!

spectator101

Darwin Awards aren't given out for intentional suicide, even if it is a really stupid reason. Just like Mythbusters wont cover 9/11 or RFID. It's "inappropriate".

martin0641

She's dead. She is totally over it, believe me. I don't know why anyone would feel sorry for her, cause she's chilling with a scared cow at this point.

Her family on the other hand, is going to have to ask if they did enough to help her. Depression is not a happy thing, and people who are prone to it pass on genes and behaviour that affect a lot of people in negative ways.

None of us are special, we're all star-dust, and that's what she chose to do with her time on earth. Her family, therapy, drugs, an education, logic, scepticism, or deep brain stimulation might have changed her personal outcome, but none of that happened, and instead she had an effect on people worldwide. It never ceases to amaze me how "compassion fatigue" manages to set in with people, who make huge deals out of personal stories and ignore the oppressive genocide that affects millions.

In all likely-hood, she will have left a more indelible mark on the annals of history than most other people in her situation, and she managed to do it while still exempting herself from the gene pool. Neat-o.

martin0641

Darwin award honorable mention?

WolfDemon

I don't understand why one would rather go out on common pesticides, either. Hell, I'd be honored if my species managed to wipe itself and its planet out in one fell swoop like that. Plus, assuming there's an afterlife, you've got one hell of a death story!

"Yeah, yeah. So how'd you die?"
"Fork in a toaster. You?"
"Compressed into a singularity with all other matter on the planet caused by a man-made black hole."
"Oh..."

Griffehpoo

Excellent

All is going according to plan

>:D

JuiceDaddy

@92BuickLeSabre: Agreed. This poor girl obviously had other things troubling her...

Jrsy

@lolec: lucky bastard :)

Alfonzo

I am constantly astonished at how many idiots there are on this site. There are some very tasteless comments that clearly show how educated they are. Imagine if you were one of the parents and heard someone making comments like this. It's devastating. Comments like the one's I've read here today only make me see how terrible humanity can be. May you all have a family member die the same way to teach you all lessons.

delt23

Oh come on people. This girl was just looking for a reason to pull the trigger. If it wasnt this then it would have happened when she was told that Santa/Easterbunny/Great Pumpkin doesn't exist. I blame her parents because if they knew they had a little crackpot living with them, then they should have kept a closer eye on her and hidden the sharp and poisonous objects. Either way, while this is sad, I don't think it warrents the lashing some of you are giving the commentors. This is simply natures way of clearing the leaves out the the strainer in the gene pool.

MorganRW

:-D
[www.cyriak.co.uk]
Hadron web cam

pobox90210

@delt23:

Shit like this happens to all the time. That's the world. I doubt the parents are going to this site and reading the comments. Don't get riled up if some random guys start making jokes or something. It's better than be all sad, because that's the last thing we need. More sadness in the world. Plus your wish that we all have a family member die in the same way is somewhat uncalled for and pretty childish.

Jitty

@delt23: I have no sympathy for suicides, and no respect for those that wish for others to die.

jkr's bold comment

Thinning of the herd. I love how completely insane people get when they don't understand something like this.

Sollus

I've known a couple of people who had to deal with suicide of a friend or family member, so that Darwin shit just ain't funny.

It's only funny when it's a redneck thinking he can jump his pickup with a thousand M-80 firecrackers on the flatbed over a ramp, but this shit's depressing.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@martin0641:
That isn't why they won't cover RFID.

Anyone taking a cheap shot at this girl and her family are a***holes. She obviously had some major problems and her family are just grasping at straws trying to comprehend it. While mental illness can be the result of dodgy genes there are a lot of other possible factors and noone here immune from the issue. How does this even get to be a Giz article, get some standards.

hedges1968

Frankly, the "sensationalistic" media is just as much to blame as anyone. My favorite are the prime-time teasers for the late news broadcasts, "Tonite at 10pm, learn how you could be in danger in your own home!" And the people who watch that kind of rubbish are naive. They need to learn not to put too much importance in what you hear.

Sadly, the girl in India probably needed help. Her inability to use common sense was her undoing. She simply didn't get it, and believed what she wanted to believe, and took her own life because of it. If it wasn't the LHC, it would have been something else. Where were this girl's parents? Clearly, they didn't know their daughter, and weren't there to recognize the signs.

yikz

if Hawking okays it
then of course I'm with him here
but i'm still faster

erikislame

I know this is the internet, and that we aren't real people, but I just wanted to drop a note of appreciation for those sticking up for basic decency here. Good to see.

MB

Heck, if she and her father were in the USA, the father would sue the makers of the LHC and probably win.

thebear91

I'd like to know how many of the dicks who are so flip with someone's terminal mental illness have ever had to deal with the death of a loved one.

Suicide or not, the girl is dead, and her family has to pick up the pieces.

badhatharry

Considering I am sooo far down in the comments, I bet noone will read this. but...

Check out the book "Spin". It's sci-fi with a big doomsday thing and mass suicide. But it is a good book, I am on the sequel "Axis" right now.

xes

@jkr's bold comment: Well said.

bucho54

There's too many people on the planet ... what ever helps them die I'm for it... so I guess at the moment I'm all for high-energy physics!

PittsburghEatsOhioFarts

@xes:

what did you eat for dinner on monday? that is also important.

erikislame

they also worship the cow in india, splash cow urine on head/face, some drink it too, no joke, look it up.

beau.ryan

Don't make fun of her. She is an heroine.

markarian

I watched a PBS show about black holes and they DEFINITELY were saying it WOULD be painless.

Kimistry

That's a shame. Now if only the shitheads sending death-threats to LHC personnel would drink some pesticide.

Apsalus

@beau.ryan: Some of us even go as far as to eat cows!! Oh the humanity!!

Getting back on topic, I call bullshit. I bet that the 16 year old girl got herself knocked up by the village idiot, her parents didn't know how to deal with it so they poisoned her with pesticide and then blamed it on the eminent fake Doom from switching on the LHC.

Barfolemew

guys, keep in mind sometimes it's better just to shut the fuck up!

Who let the Trolls out?

@Who let the Trolls out?: Yeah, but it isn't as much fun.

AmishJohn

O NOES!! Heartless, witty comments... from the interwebs!!! /gasp!! That never happens!!

Seriously - what did you expect when you hit the jump people?! A long line of sympathy comments?

Come on. The comments section is not where to look to regain your faith in humanity before we all meet at the singularity. :)

avconsumer2

Since she lives in India wouldn't it have been easier to rub oneself out in a manner besides eating pesticide!?!?

I mean seriously...couldn't she have just stuck her head in the basket full of poison snakes?

...Or jumped off a building onto a bed of nails?

...Or ate some 6 day old leftover curry?

...Or flew a kite with piano wire?

...Or bathed in any local river?

...How about attempting to drive in the city anytime the sun is shining?

...Leper colonies? Woohoo! A field trip to the city of joy.

///Can't think of any other lame stereotypes to pounce upon.

I_Like_Pie

If I were her father I would of told people that she killed herself due to other reasons.

Tweak

I would have figured...if a black hole happened, you wouldn't even realize it did. BAM dead. Poison seems like such a...yuck way to go.

Dreadfish

@OtterKing: I gotta agree with you an Moonshadow.....That pretty much IS the definition of Natural Selection.
@hedges1968: Yes, I am an asshole....but at least I know it.
@DeadWriter: Mmmmm......Spaghetti.....droooooooooooool.......

Just as a side note, dont Hindus believe that if you kill urself, youll come back as like, some lowly insect or something....

hkmp5n

What does this have to with gadgets?

vincentw561

@nagumi: "Sometimes, this place seems like some dumb forum full of pubescent teenage boys with blue balls who compete to see who can be the biggest dick and say the worst, most despicable thing."

SO you're saying it seems like the Internet?

Killjoy

@markarian:
heh... i get it.

med

I would have liked to die the way I have lived. Surrounded by technology and/or technological advances.

Kayonesoft

this would become really funny if the world did implode upon a successful collision in the LHC, we all died in an excruciating way, and that girl would be taunting all those "idiot" commenters here in the afterlife. :D

not that i think the world would really end that way, but it's an amusing thought.

and for the retard comments about india being backwards, if it makes you feel better about yourselves, sure, go right ahead. must be nice to live a life where you need to reassure yourself that you're a smarter being than people of other countries. of course, the truth says otherwise.

vinzer

some Year 7 at our school was so upset as he only found out in the morning (8:30 GMT here the time they turned it on) that he had to see the school nurse. Also it was funny how bright light coming in through the blinds scared the shit out of some people.

Yeebles

@92BuickLeSabre: But it is still natural selection. (spoken by someone who's been on the edge before)

@vincentw561: um... the LHC?

hnkelley

I'm a little disappointed that all of you Giz readers can make a young girl's suicide a source of your amusement.

squarie

@Griffehpoo: I liked that.And I agree. Good example of "Gallows Humor"

I'd like to say it's sad that someone like this killed themselves. But its more pathetic than anything.

My biggest question is.. WHY CUT YOUR LIFE SHORT?!.. I mean seriously... I would want to live as long as possible, right up till that last second (even if I were depressed).

One more thing, to me, from my perspective its like saying .. "Well one day I am going to die of old age, might as well go ahead and get it over with today instead" And that is stupid ass thinking.

The only thing that does make sense is that, well she could have been depressed. As someone who has hit the bottom, skidded along for a bit, I'd like to say, I could understand her. But that would be a lie. For me it was more of a .. "I just don't give damn attitude, apathy" and then a kinda.. *Whine bag stage*. Logic was still there. And functioning fine.

-Core-

@martin0641: she's chillin with a "scared" cow now that's some funny shit right there.... I'm only upset she chose not to webcast her personal choice to exit this world... DAMMIT!

BigViper

Holy shit!

StopTheLHC

good

-emory-

Here is the reason why that girl from India committed suicide. Hindoos believe that if an organism is vaporized they wont be reincarnated. If she finishes herself off by pesticide than she has a chance to be reincarnated...maybe as a 7-eleven worker or a nyc cabbie

terrelasger