The Tragic Death of Nadia Kajouji

Internet chatrooms and a suicide pact

Neha
4 min readSep 30, 2023
18-year-old Nadia Kajouji

Background

Nadia Kajouji was a student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 2007. She was an 18-year-old law student and she was from Brampton, Ontario.

Nadia was having a significantly normal university experience, she moved into a dorm in her first year, she made lots of new friends, she loved socializing and going to parties, she had a boyfriend and she was trying to manage all of this with being a pre-law student.

In 2008 during the winter semester, it seemed as though she was becoming increasingly depressed. Her depression led her to find people to talk to online on different chatrooms about the way she was feeling, and how she could potentially feel better. However, Nadia came across a chatroom where she started chatting with an individual named Cami.

Reportedly, she spoke to Cami about her intrusive thoughts and suicidal ideations. Cami would encourage Nadia to talk about her suicidal ideations and her plans to end her own life. Nadia started becoming increasingly curious about what death feels like. She went on to tell Cami this in the online chatroom.

Around this time Cami started encouraging Nadia to take her own life.

Beginning of the End

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