I have my doubts that she was not heading down the road to suicide anyway, but I fail to see why we should remove all sympathy for parents whose daughter just died in this way.
It perhaps is fashionable to blame parents for the suicide when the woman is 19 and living out at college, but I am not sure if it is really fair to assume that it was so obvious in hindsight and that they could have done more than they actually did.
There's some selective quoting here of the article, but I see everyone's main point that it's unfair to put all the blame on the newsgroup. Nevertheless, I am troubled that people seem to think it is so deserving of such strong support. From reading the article, it appears that there was a user who if not encouraging this young woman, certainly did nothing to stop her, and probably helped her obtain the potassium cyanide. When a troubled person contacts someone and asks for help and advice on committing suicide and he helps her along to that goal, and when her affliction is simply temporary depression, I fail to see why this person can simply morally wash his hands of what happened regardless of the fact that there are little criminal sanctions out there to punish him.
What I find interesting about this story is that there are people on this suicide newsgroup who seem to think that suicide is such a great option for others, and encourage them to reach their dreams, but yet seem to be rather hesitant when it comes to their own demise.