One takes a photo from an ambulance, another from the hospital. They just tried to kill themselves. Everything is published directly on Snapchat.



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The plan was to take an overdose in hopes that they would never wake up. “I love you” was the last thing they said to each other.

The couple sat on the bathroom floor, leaning on the washing machine. It was Sunday in the late summer of this year. In her hand, Nora held the mobile phone, an Iphone X bought for money she had inherited.

So she remembers it.

Just a few months earlier, on the day she turned 18, she packed up all her belongings and left the child welfare institution where she lived. He moved to a city more than 100 miles from where he grew up. That’s where she met her boyfriend.

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A magazine may reveal a rapidly growing Snapchat environment, where young Norwegians share dark weekdays filled with intoxication, suicidal thoughts and loneliness. Nora is one of them.

In August, his Snapchat account had more than 30,000 regular viewers. They recognized her on the street, teenagers approached her and filmed her. But several of the followers were also concerned. In the weeks before she and her boyfriend planned to overdose, followers sent several messages to the police.

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