The following are among such techniques described in vivid detail: beheading, cutting oneself, drowning, suffocation, electrocution, use of explosives, hanging, vehicular impact, jumping from bridges and towers, drug abuse, inhaling and ingesting poisons, suicide by fire, stabbing, shooting, starvation and suicide attack.

World Net Daily quoted a representative of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline as saying, "A site detailing the different methods someone could use to kill themselves could definitely be harmful to the public."

And yet, once again Wikipedia refuses to remove the inappropriate content.

Jay Walsh, head of communications for the Wikimedia Foundation said, "The Wikimedia Foundation operates the software and maintains the servers that power Wikipedia; however the entire Wikipedia project is maintained exclusively by volunteers, No paid staff make edits to content, rather members of the volunteer community will add or remove information at their discretion and within the auspices of the editorial pillars of Wikipedia, which generally include: noncensorship, neutral point of view, no original research and, to a similar extent, addressing the question of 'notability.'"

The Wikipedia article(s) also contain links to suicide strategy books at the bottom such as "Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying," "The Peaceful Pill Handbook" and "The Complete Manual of Suicide" for further reading.

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