I'd hope one of you would do the same for me... if it ever came to that.

It won't ever come to that unless something terribly terribly wrong happened. I value my one and only life much too much.

But I find this excerpt interesting:

"We've recognized that teens have a degree of intimacy of communicating over the Internet that is astounding," said Eric Trupin, a juvenile and adolescent psychology professor at the University of Washington.

"It doesn't totally surprise me that this youth was having this kind of interaction," he said.

Trupin agreed that the public Web posting was very similar to a plea for help, very much like a suicidal person standing on a bridge or high-rise building.