90 Day Jane

90 Day Jane was a blog and hoax published in 2008 by an anonymous woman, known as Jane, who promised to commit suicide 90 days after launching the blog, with the tagline, "I'm Going to Kill Myself in 90 Days".[1][2] Her blog posts chronicled her life in the days leading up to her ostensibly planned suicide and asked its readers to help her pick a method for killing herself, citing Christine Chubbuck and R. Budd Dwyer as inspirations for her publicizing her suicide.[3][4] The comments on the blog ranged from sympathetic to negative, with NPR's Laura Conaway writing that "some of them [are] showing the worst -- really, the worst -- in human beings."[5] Suicide prevention advocates frowned upon 90 Day Jane, fearing that it would encourage others to emulate her behavior.[6] In February 2008, she revealed that the blog was started as an art project meant for a small group of her friends and that she did not actually plan on committing suicide; she took down the blog soon after.[7]

References
  1. BuzzFeed Staff (February 12, 2008). "90 Day Jane". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  2. Trent (February 12, 2008). "Weird World, Part Three: 90 Day Jane Comments". WFMU.
  3. Friedman, Emily (November 21, 2008). "Florida Teen Live-Streams His Suicide Online". ABC News. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  4. Bronner, Simon J. (2009). "Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore". In Blank, Trevor J. (ed.). Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780874217506.
  5. Conaway, Laura (February 12, 2008). "The Word About '90 Day Jane'". NPR. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  6. Moore, Tina (February 13, 2008). "Controversial 90-Day Jane blogger maintains suicide countdown is real". New York Daily News. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  7. Douglas, Nick (February 13, 2008). "90 Day Jane Not Killing Herself, Not As Hot As You Hoped". Gawker. Retrieved August 6, 2022.


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