New Update about Byuu/Near

[Jayro]

Im pretty sure people don't have the right to fake their deaths if that is what happened here.

Nah, I 100% disagree with you there.

If someone doesn't like their life and wants to start anew, I support it. Fake your death, move somewhere new, and start fresh. New identity, new look, new you. If that's what Near did, then good for him.

 

[bjornn]

I stumbled across this thread Googling about what happened to Near. It seems like all of the people talking about this are extremely-online out of touch internet weirdos who are lost in a rabbit hole of convoluted conspiracy theories and delusions of being international e-detectives who can verify a suicide case in a foreign country with absolutely no qualifications or law enforcement credentials or even the ability to understand the language. A major news outlet confirmed Near's death with a former employer but I suppose even that's not enough, now that we live in this post-truth era where everything can be written off as fake news and reality is whatever you decide it to be. I don't suspect that any amount of evidence would ever be enough.

And furthermore it's interesting how literally all of the people who are obsessively scrutinizing this person's death are people who have expressed absolutely zero interest in this person's life. They don't seem to know or care about who they really were and just talk about them like they were some curious oddity rather than a human being. It seems like these people just want to erase Near from existence as some form of denial stemming from a guilty conscience. I think these are all people who probably share some of those same sentiments about certain marginalized people as those expressed on places like KiwiFarms. And I understand that - I think most of us can probably think back to some instance, maybe during our school years, where we eagerly joined in on the bullying because it felt good to be part of that group, having a laugh at the outcast and being on the winning side. It doesn't feel good to have to examine your own toxicity and people will do anything to avoid having to do that.

But the fact of the matter is, Near is dead. People are fragile, we all have limits to what we can endure. And if you wanted to, you could build a giant elaborate machine that combs through the internet filtering out the people who are the most fragile and you could put all those fish in a barrel and shoot them to your heart's content. All it takes is a little bit of coordinated effort and a lot of spare time on your hands. You can find out that it's easy to hurt people, it's easy to kill people, all it takes is to flip that mental switch that makes you stop seeing reality, stop seeing your victims as humans, stop seeing the real-life consequences of your actions. You can find the most helpless person and lay into them relentlessly and destroy their life and break their spirit and watch them die and you can feel like you are God.

It saddens me that someone had to suffer and die just for the sake of a stranger's cheap laugh. It also saddens me that after Near's death, what little pieces of their memory that still remain in the world continue to be trampled into the mud by people who never even knew them or knew a thing about them. Maybe these people just don't understand death, they've lived sheltered lives and don't have the emotional maturity to fully comprehend it. I understand it, a lot better than I would want to. I look at the world I live in and the unbelievable cruelty that people are capable of and I completely understand why a person would choose to end their life and leave this all behind.