[BlackVeil]

When reading the distressing details of the "myspace suicide case", I was very much reminded of this earlier scandal concerning Oxford dons. There is a type of person who likes to drive others to suicide, and also feels compelled to boast about it. The memoir written by this scholar is very similar to the blog by Megan's stalker.

At least Trevor Aston was a grown man.

[BlackVeil]

Discussion ping to a similar case. The full story is available at the link.

I had great difficulty in believing that someone would write such a memoir, until this recent case and I read that blog. Very strange people - childish and obsessive, but adults. I think that being involved in a suicide makes them feel powerful.

[metmom]

But there will still be some, even on this forum, who will lay all the responsibility and guilt of the suicide on the poor person provoked into it; thereby absolving the person responsible of their premeditated and coldly executed deed.

Sick.

[DJ MacWoW]

There are definately mentally twisted people that believe all their troubles will be over at the death of someone else. I believe that pushing someone to suicide is a form of murder. Not prosecutable under the law but reprehensible all the same. Moral bankruptcy knows no bounds and apparently neither does ego.

[riverdawg]

Trevor Aston was a maniacal drunk who terrorized the students and staff of Corpus Christi College at Oxford for decades. Sir Kenneth Dover, in his official capacity as President of the college, wrote to Aston that his contract had been renewed by the slimmest of margins. We are then led by the NYTimes article to believe that this letter, rather than Aston’s impending divorce and increasingly severe bouts of drink-induced depression, “caused” Aston to commit suicide. So, how much responsibility does Aston bear for his own demise?