Wii contest death yields no criminal charges

[Kameo]

KCRA in Sacramento has reported that no charges will be filed in the death of Jennifer Strange, who passed away after trying to win a Wii in a radio contest earlier this year.

Strange, who did not win the system, attempted to keep herself from urinating after drinking nearly two gallons of water as part of the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest held by 107.9 The End. Her body was found in her home hours after the contest ended.

Jan Scully, the district attorney of Sacramento County, said in a written statement that the radio station's actions did not rise to the level of criminal activity. "Jennifer Strange was an adult who was voluntarily participating in the radio contest," Scully's office wrote. "She knew what the contest involved when she entered it, and had the option to stop or discontinue her participation in the contest at any time."

The civil suit filed by Strange's family has not yet been resolved. Though no charges have been filed, there have been repercussions at the station after Strange's death. The morning show that hosted the contest was canceled and 10 staffers at the station were fired.

[Crazed Dragon]

oh I saw this on the news, lame how she died

[Kameo]

So long n00b, U have been banned for trolling the board.

[Iconoclast]

Before I assume suicide here, I'd need to know how she really died.

Craze, you seem to know.

[cherko]

If her death was directly related to the contest, then that's not lame or funny, it's horrible. The contest may be lame and funny, but the death isn't.

[Iconoclast]

The contest, I don't care about. Death, in general, the foreshadowed and inexpressible shutter of eternal emptiness, is what would shudder me.

What happens if you are frozen in time, but someone removes the cold a thousand years later? You feel like only an instant has passed, but what happens if the cold is never removed?

[cherko]

That thought used to disturb me a lot, but the panic attacks have been over for a long time and when I think of death, I just feel, absolutely nothing. Completely blank. I guess I just can't comprehend eternity, or the end of it.

[Iconoclast]

it'd be like you sleep forever

btw, you'd die from dehydration within a few days anywayDeath isn't sleep. When you're asleep, you feel some form of consciousness in your brain. You still feel alive, believe it or not, it just isn't easy to feel. But when you're dead, you feel absolutely nothing. Try it right now. Try stopping all processes going on in your mind right now so that you are basically completely dead.

You can't, obviously, because if you did, you would fall out of your chair from behind you (well, depending on the chair, it might at least tip over with you in it), you wouldn't be breathing or processing the instructions to do so, and you wouldn't even know how to open your eyes back up again.