Seppuku ("stomach-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Seppuku was originally reserved only for samurai. Part of the samurai honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies, as a form of capital punishment for samurai who have committed serious offenses, and for reasons that shamed them. Seppuku is performed by plunging a sword into the abdomen and moving the sword left to right in a slicing motion.
(image: credits to James Wignall)
let's get virtual:
seppukoo.com offers the perfect service for your virtual suicidal needs on Facebook
from their about-section:
"You are more than your virtual identity
'Virtual Life' is an - often - abused term used to describe the whole of one person online activities. But as media communications let our second/online/offline identities overflowing into real life - and vice-versa - the distinctions between the real and the virtual are becoming, more and more confused. Which is virtual? And where's the real? Beyond all those questions only a fact remains: that our privacy, our profiles, our identities, our relationships, they are all - fake and/or real - entirely exploited for a sole purpose: to be sold as a product. But are those lives really worth to be experienced.
As the Seppuku restores samurai's honor as a warrior, in the same way, seppukoo.com deals with the liberation of the digital body from any identity constriction in order to help people discover what happens after their virtual life and to rediscover the importance of being anyone, instead of pretending to be someone.
Hacking and parasiting one of the most popular social networking website, seppukoo.com deactivates one's user facebook account, driving people into one of the most radical chic user-experience: the vir(tu)al suicide.
As viral marketing strategies have been exploited by corporate media to make profit connecting people all over the world, Seppukoo playfully attempts to subvert this mechanism disconnecting people from each other and transforming the individual suicide experience into an exciting"social" experience.
Suicide is a free choice and a kind of self-assertiveness. Unfortunately, Facebook doesn't give to its users this faculty at all, and your account will be only deactivated. This means that any information regarding you and your friends, will be strictly preserved by facebook authorities in order to keep your virtual life alive for the eternity.
That's why you won't need any superpower to come back to your virtual life after death: just a simple login, and your life will be completely restore back."
moreover:
"In 2009 a bunch of popular fictitious identities haunted the ethereal Facebook network. Their account names have been stolen from notable real personalities - suicidal VIPs, rockers, philosophers, historic personalities - in order to perform one of the most controversial viral campaign about life, death and virtual eternity."
OK then:
I'll create a fake account for some person like "F. Werther" and kill it!...
or even myself! (on FB - don't panic!)
[planned for Febuary '10]
but all this brings up another question:
when I die in the real world - are my profiles eternal
and if not: who will deactivate them???
good night and good luck!
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