“Suicide Tourism” Web Sites Close

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  11.04.05 | 10:41 AM ET

Roger Graham’s Web sites offered to help people make arrangements to kill themselves in Cambodia, and the expat American shut them down voluntarily today in an effort to avoid a confrontation with local authorities. According to an AP report, one of the now-unavailable sites offered a rationale for suicide and links to purchase books on the subject.  “You are going to die anyway,” Graham apparently wrote, “so why not in Cambodia?”