90 Day Jane
{{Short description|2008 suicide blog hoax}}
90 Day Jane was a blog and hoax published in 2008 by an anonymous woman, known as Jane, who promised to die by suicide 90 days after launching the blog, with the tagline "I'm Going to Kill Myself in 90 Days".{{cite web |author1=BuzzFeed Staff |title=90 Day Jane |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzz/90_Day_Jane |website=BuzzFeed News |access-date=August 6, 2022 |language=en |date=February 12, 2008}}{{cite web |author1=Trent |title=Weird World, Part Three: 90 Day Jane Comments |url=https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/02/weird-world-pt.html |website=WFMU |date=February 12, 2008}} Her blog posts chronicled her life in the days leading up to her ostensibly planned suicide and asked its readers to help her pick a method for killing herself, citing Christine Chubbuck and R. Budd Dwyer as inspirations for her publicizing her suicide.{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Emily |title=Florida Teen Live-Streams His Suicide Online |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/MindMoodNews/story?id=6306126&page=1 |website=ABC News |access-date=August 8, 2022 |language=en |date=November 21, 2008}}{{cite book |last1=Bronner |first1=Simon J. |editor1-last=Blank |editor1-first=Trevor J. |title=Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World |date=2009 |publisher=Utah State University Press |location=Logan, Utah |isbn=9780874217506 |page=54 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgrx5.5 |chapter=Digitizing and Virtualizing Folklore|doi=10.2307/j.ctt4cgrx5.5 |jstor=j.ctt4cgrx5.5 }} The comments on the blog ranged from sympathetic to negative, with NPR's Laura Conaway writing that "some of them [are] showing the worst—really, the worst—in human beings."{{cite web |last1=Conaway |first1=Laura |title=The Word About '90 Day Jane' |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/bryantpark/2008/02/the_word_about_90_day_jane.html |website=NPR |access-date=August 6, 2022 |language=en |date=February 12, 2008}} Suicide prevention advocates frowned upon 90 Day Jane, fearing that it would encourage others to emulate her behavior.{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Tina |title=Controversial 90-Day Jane blogger maintains suicide countdown is real |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/controversial-90-day-jane-blogger-maintains-suicide-countdown-real-article-1.311634 |website=New York Daily News |access-date=August 6, 2022 |date=February 13, 2008}} In February 2008, she revealed that the blog was started as an art project meant for a small group of her friends and that she did not actually plan on taking her life; she took down the blog soon after.{{cite web |last1=Douglas |first1=Nick |title=90 Day Jane Not Killing Herself, Not As Hot As You Hoped |url=https://www.gawker.com/356131/90-day-jane-not-killing-herself-not-as-hot-as-you-hoped |website=Gawker |access-date=August 6, 2022 |language=en |date=February 13, 2008}}