dont understand it

I dont understand the appeal of group and/or public suicides. Taking your own life is the most personal, intimate thing that you can do. Why would you want others there?
Personally i would much rather just be by myself, laying in the dark with no one but my thoughts and my agony as company as I take the final plunge. It just way too much of a personal thing. I mean, I was the one who decided to commit suicide so I should be the only one there when I do. Alone in life and alone in death, thats my motto anyway.
Which leads me to public suicide, which perplexes me even more. For example, a few months ago some guy went onto a video chat with a whole bunch of other people and proceeded to hang in myself in front of his computer's camera as everyone looked on. Now I truly dont get this AT ALL. What do you benefit from this? All its going to do is freak people out and possibly taumatize them. I mean, usually people commit suicide to escape some sort of pain in their life (at least, thats the case for me and those ive talked to anyway). It simply ending an unbearable existence, not a show for others to view. When I do it, im sure as hell going to be alone.
But, I dont know, maybe im just ignorant to these things. Perhaps you could fill me in on the reasoning behind this.

 

maybe the person wants someone there for them in the afterlife :dunno: or just someone to stop them from doing it to them.

 

I think it would be pretty cool to pay someone to have a staged sword fight in public where you lose and the guy decapitates you at the end, sort of like a highlander thing.

 

but then that person would end up doing life in jail or possibly even the death sentence for it. Ruining someone elses life just because you want to end your's seems a bit wrong. And (depending on where you do it I suppose) there is a chance that children might witness it. That could leave them with permanent emotional scarring. And i know that this can happen from experience, when i was very young i saw a motorcyclist crash on the freeway and pretty much get ripped apart. I still have nightmares about it.
But you still didnt answer the most important question. Why? What is the appeal of dying in public?