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ASH World Wide Suicide

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Overview

A boy posts a message on the Internet seeking a suicide partner. A girl reads it and flies to meet him one week later. Together they jump off a 600-meter cliff. They found each other on an Internet newsgroup called alt.suicide.holiday, or ASH. Internet newsgroups are virtual discussion forums amongst people with common interests. The subject of this one is suicide. You come across thousands of letters. The unknown leave behind their open hearted life stories for us to read. Who are these people and why are they seeking each other on the Internet? What lives lay hidden behind the blue light of the computers. In ASH worlwide suicide we meet four writers of this newsgroup.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: September 28, 2002
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: Netherlands
Production: VPRO
Director: Walter Stokman
Producer: Ilse van Huisstede
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0337567