Quite frankly, this sounds more like possession.
I have known young people who seem to have a “suicide function” in their brains.
Again, this sounds more like possession.
Sounds like it to me, too. I notice also, the deathbots who carry out these deeds are not too different from some of those who have infested our threads in times past. Happily a lot of them got the Final Exit zot. I wonder if any of those with the Hemlock gaggle were former trolls here. Most are gone, but a few still are drawn to these threads, coming out of hiding as they do so.