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Comments on: British man in webcam 'suicide'

Why the photo? 

Posted Monday 26th March 2007 09:50 GMT

I fail to see the justification for adding a large colour photo of a suicide to a story.

It's not like it's someone we can now recognize later on the street (and even that would only be useful for those you'd really want to avoid, like robbers and captain cyborg).

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