“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?”

Tags: Asia, Cambodia, News and Briefs

Michael Yessis

Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor of World Hum.


1 Comment for “Suicide Tourism” Web Sites Close

Carl Parkes 11.06.05 | 1:17 PM ET

For those interested, the Google cache link to the removed page is listed at:

http://friskodude.blogspot.com/2005/11/holiday-in-cambodia.html

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