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{{Further|Sanctioned Suicide}}

{{proper name|r/SanctionedSuicide}} was a subreddit that approached the topic of [[suicide]] from a [[Right to die|pro-choice]] perspective. It included discussions surrounding the ethics of suicide as well as posts containing rants from Reddit users.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Jennings |title=The Strange Legacy Of The First Sanctioned Suicide Forum |url=http://www.vocativ.com/372267/suicide-forums/index.html |access-date=March 18, 2018 |work=Vocativ |date=December 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151358/http://www.vocativ.com/372267/suicide-forums/index.html |archive-date=March 19, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Reddit banned the subreddit on March 14, 2018, for violating its guidelines;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reddit - Dive into anything |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/SanctionedSuicide}}</ref> this prompted the creation of its own website, [[Sanctioned Suicide]], where many of the subreddit's users migrated to thereafter.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dance|first1=Gabriel J.X.|last2=Twohey|first2=Megan|title=Where the Despairing Log On, and Learn Ways to Die|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/09/us/where-the-despairing-log-on.html|date=9 December 2021|access-date=26 March 2022|quote=It came online after Reddit shut down a group where people had been sharing suicide methods and encouraging self-harm. Reddit prohibited such discussion, as did Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. Serge wrote days after the new site opened that the two men had started working on it because they 'hated to see the community disperse and disappear.'}}</ref>

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