Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths

Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by StuckDuck on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:40PM (#33144010)

This article is so wrong on so many levels. First off, Amazon is definitely not selling "suicide kits", let alone advertising them. What they really meant here is the automated "people usually buy this with" section that suggests other items that are commonly bought along with the viewed item, meaning that the viewer had to be at least aware of what they were searching for (they were probably looking for some chemical).

Second of all and most important... WHY the hell were these CHILDREN buying stuff off of Amazon, somehow WITHOUT THEIR PARENT'S KNOWLEDGE? Did they just pay with their own cc, have it delivered to the house all while their parents/guardians DIDN'T notice?

If their parents are so uncaring for their children, then I'm not even surprised they wanted to commit suicide.

Just my 2¢ and sorry for yelling a bit

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by seer-zig on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:58PM (#33145287)

I agree with you overall, but it’s still a problem that they’re selling books on how to attempt suicide

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by StuckDuck on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:31PM (#33196123)

Yeah, it even seems very weird as well that a company would paint this image on themselves

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by ksaj on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:12PM (#33145403)

Visa and Mastercard both have gift cards available at gas stations, grocery stores and corner stores everywhere you go. There is no age restriction with those. You just need enough cash to buy one.

Likewise, a lot of banks have changed their debit cards to VISA debit cards so they can be used like credit cards, again regardless of age.

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by kotaKat on Sunday October 09, 2022 @07:54PM (#33146439)

Not even that, Amazon lets you pay with cash now relatively easily on its own.

https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=14583169011

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by 93po on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:45PM (#33145631)

This was annoying for me too. I went to Amazon to search for suicide kit and found nothing. I searched for whatever that chemical was and tried to see related items that were concerning and still saw nothing.

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by retox on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:45PM (#33147017)

It has been pointed out to Amazon that these items shouldn't be recommended together and their legal response was that they weren't going to change anything. Never seen an Amazon Defense Force post before.

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by StuckDuck on Thursday October 13, 2022 @04:32PM (#33196130)

I'm not defending Amazon

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Re:Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths by some_random on Monday October 10, 2022 @09:41AM (#33151285)

As documented in the article, Ebay and Etsy stopped selling Sodium Nitrate in lab grade purities because of this, Amazon has not. It's not at all weird for parents to let their children buy things on Amazon especially with their own money. If you're having trouble thinking of ways this could happen, you could read the article which talks about a few examples.

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