I Will Kill You

[Bullgrit]

I kill someone each week — every Wednesday, every week, for almost 6 months, now. As of this week, I’ve killed 23 people.

The posts at American Death at Total Bullgrit are fictional accounts of a fictional person’s death, told from the dier’s point of view. I started the series as just an excuse to write some fiction on a regular basis, but it’s become a bit more fun for me, and it’s picked up a small following.

But now I’m offering to kill real people –- using real people’s names, at their request. This real name can be yours. Let me kill you.

Just send me an email (subject: “American Death - Kill Me”) with your full name and date of birth. (Let me know what name you go by if it isn’t your full first name.) If you have a preference or an idea for how you’d like to die, tell me that, too.

This offer is for you only — don’t send me the names of your friends or family, (or enemies, or celebrities/politicians). By emailing me your name and birth date you are requesting that I write a short sketch of your own fictional death, from your point of view. Show your death to your friends, use it as an excuse to skip a class or take a day off from work, however you’d like to enjoy it.

I can make no guarantee for your satisfaction. And if you end up dying as I’ve described, either tomorrow or 50 years from now, wow, that’d be a freaky coincidence. Your death on this site is just for entertainment purposes only.

If you don’t live in America, I can still kill you, too. We’ll just pretend you’re an American.

First come, first killed.

Bullgrit
I Will Kill You
American Death

 

[Relique du Madde]

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But now I’m offering to kill real people –- using real people’s names, at their request. This real name can be yours. Let me kill you.

Just send me an email (subject: “American Death - Kill Me”) with your full name and date of birth. (Let me know what name you go by if it isn’t your full first name.) If you have a preference or an idea for how you’d like to die, tell me that, too.

This offer is for you only — don’t send me the names of your friends or family, (or enemies, or celebrities/politicians). By emailing me your name and birth date you are requesting that I write a short sketch of your own fictional death, from your point of view. Show your death to your friends, use it as an excuse to skip a class or take a day off from work, however you’d like to enjoy it.

I can make no guarantee for your satisfaction. And if you end up dying as I’ve described, either tomorrow or 50 years from now, wow, that’d be a freaky coincidence. Your death on this site is just for entertainment purposes only.

If you don’t live in America, I can still kill you, too. We’ll just pretend you’re an American.

First come, first killed.

Bullgrit
I Will Kill You
American Death

Bullgrit. Seriously BAD IDEA.

Doing that may be consituted as a threat against the "victim" and if one of the people was a public figure you WILL have the secret service or FBI banging on your door (especially if something happened to said individual).

 

[Nyaricus]

Bullgrit. Seriously BAD IDEA.

Doing that may be consituted as a threat against the "victim" and if one of the people was a public figure you WILL have the secret service or FBI banging on your door (especially if something happened to said individual).

Um, overreaction much?

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[Relique du Madde]

Um, overreaction much?

Not really. Remember the net isn't a closed system, besides being available to people on ENWORLD, those stories are available to random idiots around who might get the wrong idea.

Sadly the world is full of idiots and psychos you can't be assured that someone might not get the wrong idea from those posts. It's too risky especially with the number of real life shootings which were posted on the web before they happened.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Sadly the world is full of idiots and psychos you can't be assured that someone might not get the wrong idea from those posts. It's too risky especially with the number of real life shootings which were posted on the web before they happened.

While true, one might argue that posting "BAD IDEA" in big, big letters isn't the best response, Relique.

It might have been more helpful to post that directly, so that Bullgrit can put a disclaimer into the thread title and the post itself, like "(not for real)" and "(only fictionally, of course)".

Cheers, LT.

 

[Bullgrit]

There's a long, long line of stuff on the web, movies, and TV that we need to worry about idiots getting the wrong idea from, before I worry about idiots reading the back page of my little site.

Even right here on ENWorld, how many times has someone answered a "I have a bad player" thread with "kill him and take his stuff"? Does that kind of thing need a disclaimer in case the OP takes the "advice" seriously and murders and robs the player?

Besides, my American Death posts are not about *killing*, they're about dying. In my posts, people have died from natural causes, accidents, and suicides, as well as a few homicides. If you've only read the most recent -- an accidental homicide -- you don't have the full picture of what the posts cover. [I know this last statement sounds like I'm just trying to drum up more hits, but *shrug*.]

Bullgrit

 

[Relique du Madde]

Even right here on ENWorld, how many times has someone answered a "I have a bad player" thread with "kill him and take his stuff"? Does that kind of thing need a disclaimer in case the OP takes the "advice" seriously and murders and robs the player?

You do realize that there is recent court case that is dealing with a similar situation. That is can someone be tried for murder in a cyber bullying/stalking incident where they told a mother and her daughter (on myspace) told this other girl that "[They] hate her and she doesn't diserve to live. [And] she should kill herself" where the recipient of that message actually did kill herself.

That case is currently driffing in appeals court, but depending on the ultimate verdict it might set some real bad precedents.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

You do realize that there is recent court case that is dealing with a similar situation. That is can someone be tried for murder in a cyber bullying/stalking incident where they told a mother and her daughter (on myspace) told this other girl that "[They] hate her and she doesn't diserve to live. [And] she should kill herself" where the recipient of that message actually did kill herself.

That case is currently driffing in appeals court, but depending on the ultimate verdict it might set some real bad precedents.

If I recall my news properly, that woman was NOT charged in the death of the girl, but rather with various computer related crimes and harrassment.

This was not a person stumbling onto a site, reading ficticious accounts of a person's death that THAT person consented to, and doing something stupid. This was a grown woman who first built the trust of a child by pretending to be a friend of that child, and then using that trust to bully her, make her feel worthless, friendless, and undeserving of happiness.

Whether or not she should have been held accountable for the girl's suicide, I'm not sure, and the discussion of the topic probably doesn't belong here. The point is that the two situations are very, very different.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I don't think it's a big deal to do this. I just really wouldn't want to submit my name for it. Something about signing up to have a story be written about my demise is inherently...uncomfortable.

 

[WhatGravitas]

I don't think it's a big deal to do this. I just really wouldn't want to submit my name for it. Something about signing up to have a story be written about my demise is inherently...uncomfortable.

I guess it depends on your natural disposition towards stuff like that. I sort of sounds weird but still interesting. But my name... that's a matter of privacy, as it's pretty identifiable (my full name is unique enough to be *always* a correct full google hit - at least up to now ).

Cheers, LT.