Legacy Matters

Social networking for suicides

Bridgend in South Wales is a small town that's been rocked to its core with the copycat suicides of seven young people.   

Although they did not know each other, all are linked in a 'suicide chain' on the social networking site Bebo. 

Melanie Davies, whose son Thomas killed himself in February following the deaths of his friends Dale and David said: "It's like a craze – a stupid sort of fad.

"They all seem to be copying each other by wanting to die.

Natasha Rando was a wild child who surfed her way to suicide and 'virtual immortality'.