Firstly, it could be real, secondly, it might be a publicity seeking sham. Taking it first that it is not a cheap stunt, I could say one or two things.
Someone who wishes to organise the suicide of people as evidently disturbed as him, is surely not in his right mind. People who intend to kill themselves by this means are not sane. They are most certainly depressed, which itself is evidence of mental illness. People who wish to visit the ultimate form of self destruction on themselves, with no reason like paralysing illness and some other form of physical torment, are deranged.
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it must be
a duck. If a person behaves in a deranged manner, and talks to others about it and persuades others to join him, then he is most surely not in possession of his faculties - he is insane. Disturbed people not in possession of their wits, their faculties, have to be protected from other deranged individuals, who wish to bring matters to a demented conclusion.
Either this man is intensely evil and or he is insane. There exists a duty on those in authority to protect vulnerable people from the likes of him, and to protect this same individual from himself.
Obviously this could well be nothing more than a sick little stunt. The man is unemployed and could well wish to gain some employment through attracting fame or notoriety. I think it quite likely that the second possibility is the correct one; that it is a stunt.
But as this story indicates, it would have involved murder of children if true.
An Oregon man who recently moved from Northern California has been arrested on suspicion of soliciting women and children on the Internet for a Valentine's Day mass suicide on the lawn of his parents' home.
Dean Krein, 26, was arrested Wednesday in Klamath Falls, a town of 20,000 just 15 miles north of the California border.
Krein was arraigned Thursday on a charge of solicitation to commit murder. That charge stems from one woman he contacted who apparently planned to kill her two children before she killed herself, said Capt. Chris Montenaro of the Klamath County Sheriff's Department.
Montenaro said authorities were alerted to the plan on Tuesday by a Canadian woman who was to participate in what Krein called his "suicide party. "
"When she discovered that (the killing of children) was to occur, she got uneasy," Montenaro said. After Krein's arrest, police searched his parents' home, where he lived, and seized his computer.
Montenaro said Krein had moved from Northern California -- investigators were still trying to determine from where -- and his parents had previously lived in Sacramento and its suburb of Citrus Heights. Krein was reportedly unemployed and moved to Klamath Falls to care for his father.
The Canadian woman printed conversations from a Yahoo chat room where Krein allegedly discussed the killing of children as part of the mass suicide, Montenaro said, adding that authorities are trying to locate those children.
So far, sheriff's investigators have identified several individuals who planned to travel to Klamath Falls for the mass suicide. Krein solicited as many as 32 people for the event, authorities said. Investigators at the sheriff's department have subpoenaed chat room conversations and user names from Yahoo and say they are racing the clock to identify as many people as possible before Monday. The chat room was online for several months and Montenaro said he did not know how many people had planned to travel to Oregon to commit suicide.
A Yahoo spokeswoman said Friday afternoon that she was unaware of the situation and could not immediately comment on the company's role in the investigation.
While the mass suicide was to happen in Oregon, authorities worry that some may now do it on their own. Krein has refused to talk to investigators since his arrest, Montenaro said. "He is all but clammed up."
Sfgate.com
I think it likely that child murder, particularly child murder done in public, is rather illegal in Oregon. Public murder-suicide is not something a person has a right to commit.
What is indicated in the article seems utterly criminal.
, but this ring or whatever appears to involve a lot of disturbed people. I hope a court can order her (if the attributed comment is authentic) to be committed to a psychiatric hospital for a very long time.