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This news is old but the freakiness never dies (unlike the 2 girls). A teenage girl died yesterday after entering into an apparent suicide pact with a friend she had contact with on MSN Messenger.

I guess MSN Messenger has its good and bad part. By the way, I am in the process of finding a “What’s Related” plug in to display a number of posts that is related to the particular post that you’re reading. It’s not hard to find that but it made me refuse to apply it in the end. Several reasons to it.

* Fear of the plug in being not supported by future versions of WordPress.
* Plug-in involves modifying SQL tables. The author of the plug in kinda include the command but I fear that modifying it may cause problems when I upgrade to future WordPresses.
* I need to manually state the related posts and there is no automation I believe.
* Some has automation but they tried to get the related post through the title of the posts. And would you mind taking a look at all my blog post titles.

It’s not easy to find it I guess. I am waiting for Matt’s announcement of something about WordPress this September. He says it’s big. I’m quite keen in knowing what that is.

Runaway Girl Dead After ‘Suicide Pact’ With Chatroom Friend

A teenage girl died yesterday after entering into an apparent suicide pact with a friend she had contact with on MSN Messenger.

Laura Rhodes, 13, and 14-year-old Rebecca Ling were returned home by police last week after running away together. But early yesterday morning the two girls were rushed to hospital after apparently taking a drugs overdose at Laura’s home in Neath, south Wales. Laura was later confirmed dead while Rebecca was last night said to be in a “stable” condition. Rebecca’s family yesterday said they were shocked and had no idea what could have driven the happy and popular girls to run away from home and take a drug overdose.

The two teenagers, who met and became friends over a year ago on MSN Messenger, had only just been returned to Neath by police after they went missing last Wednesday. They had returned from a holiday to the Greek island of Crete with Laura’s family. The teenagers had met a few times and Laura had stayed with Rebecca for a week earlier this year. Following the holiday, Rebecca had been due to travel home to Birmingham on Wednesday from Laura’s house. But after Laura was left at the station to wave goodbye to her friend, the girls boarded a train together.

Police launched a nationwide hunt and they were found in Bath on Friday. Their families expressed great relief and Rebecca had been spending the night at Laura’s home before she was due to return to her own home yesterday.

Laura’s mother discovered the girls collapsed in her daughter’s bedroom with a bottle of pills by their side. The teenagers left a note saying they did not want to be parted again. Rebecca’s mother, Alison Ling, and her natural father, David, were last night keeping a vigil at their daughter’s bedside in hospital. Ling’s partner, Neil Fisher, said Rebecca had woken once but had drifted back to sleep, so no one had heard her version of the terrible events.

Source: Scotsman.com (Nicholas Christian, September 5, 2004)

Computer Clues In ‘Suicide Pact’

Computer experts are being brought in to help police work out why two schoolgirls apparently entered into a suicide pact.

Laura (left) and Rebecca met via an internet chatroom [BBC News]

Experts have been brought in to give police access to their e-mails and chatroom messages.

Although living 130 miles apart, the two formed a friendship last year and began using MSN Messenger and mobile phone texts to keep in daily contact.

Source: BBC News reports on September 5, 2004

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