Indian teen commits suicide in fear of Large Hadron Collider
Looks like all the fearmongering regarding the operation of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has finally borne fruit. Inspired by numerous reports that the ginormous particle accelerator could potentially jump-start black holes which would then consume the planet, 16-year-old Chayya Lal took an overdose of medication to avoid dying in the ensuing cataclysm.
Chayya’s parents said she had spoken of her fears about the “Big Bang” experiment.
“Chayya had asked me a number of times whether the world would end as they were saying on television,” her father Bihari told the Hindustan Times.
“We tried to divert her attention and told her not to worry about any great disaster,” the Mail Today quoted him as saying.
The Mail said the local police inspector had raised doubts about the reasons for Chayya’s death and had vowed to investigate.
As sad as this is, I have to amusedly wonder what one has to lose if the world is going to end anyway? Why kill yourself when you’re convinced the entire world is going to be swallowed whole by a black hole? Dead is dead, ain’t it? And why choose certain-death over maybe-death?
A little forethought goes a long way…
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Maybe being killed by an expanding black hole would hurt. More than OD’ing.