Human decency would demand that you not use text messaging for sensitive exchanges like breaking up with someone or terminating an employee. It should go without saying that suicide notes fall squarely in the realm of things too important to share via SMS.
Sadly, a British man didn’t seem to care too much about texting etiquette when he used his handset to send a suicide note to his wife, according to today’s report from Mirror.co.uk. Yesterday, a 46-year-old Lancashire man sent a photo of the cliffs above Gogarth Bay, along with a message declaring his intent to jump off of them, to his wife, who notified the authorities. Rescuers rushed to the scene in a helicopter in order to stop the man, but, tragically, were too late. They could only watch him leap to his death, landing on the rocks 500 feet below.
We know that, sometimes, a person can be hurting too much to bear speaking with anybody. But, we implore anybody who is thinking about suicide to reach for their phone and, instead of texting a loved one farewell, give these folks a call. [From: Mirror.co.uk]
http://www.switched.com/2009/04/15/man-texts-suicide-note-to-wife-before-leaping-off-cliff/
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