''90 Day Jane'' was a blog and hoax run 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". 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
Robert Budd Dwyer (November 21, 1939 – January 22, 1987) was an American politician. He served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania ...
as inspirations for her publicizing her suicide. The comments on the blog ranged from sympathetic to negative, with
NPR's Laura Conaway writing that "some of them
reshowing the worst -- really, the worst -- in human beings."
Suicide prevention advocates frowned upon 90 Day Jane, fearing that it would encourage others to emulate her behavior. 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.
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2008 hoaxes
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Suicide and the Internet
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