The mother would have to prove that Amazon knew she intended to commit suicide, otherwise it's just a normal commercial transaction of a legal product.

Sad to see Ms. Singh killed herself. What support did he University offer?

Typical support from a university: from story - "She was subject to multiple academic and misconduct investigations."

As she was getting into more trouble at the university, one official allegedly wrote in an email: "I have no sympathy for her [Arya Singh] - she deserves anything you dish out to her. Sorry not more sympathetic . . . needless to say I will not be serving as her adviser."
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20150904_Amazon_com__Penn_sued_by_family_of_student_who_killed_herself.html#JSbX0SZHIkdSrFLk.99

What if somebody purchases a rope and hangs him/herself?

This is dumb.... then nobody should sell anything... you can commit suicide with almost everything!

What could possibly go wrong?

Used to be that dangerous compounds like cyanide had to be signed for after showing valid ID. Heck, I can't even buy a tried and true decongestant over the counter without showing ID and I'm limited to 98 tablets per month, yet, if I wanted, I could buy cyanide online with no restrictions?

Not that I agree with the way that was handled either, but that's the war on drugs for you.

I've never had to show an ID for rat poison that contained warfarin, and it will kill you just as dead as cyanide. If we try to ban or restrict everything someone could possibly use to commit suicide, it's going to make for a very strange world.

Then, instead of catching the rat, the cats just watched it as it took off through the house.

It ended up in the master bedroom bath, and apparently, it felt safe there because it didn't leave. After trying several "safe traps" we were finally reduced to buying rat poison.

I got one of those plastic cereal boxes and put some of the poison in it. Sure enough, that night we heard the rat going into the cereal box and it ate the poison. I told my husband that he needed to find the rat quickly or we'd have a malodorous dead rat perfuming the place.

He couldn't find it.

It didn't die. We waited and waited. It kept breathing air.

So I put the whole bag of poison in the cereal box. And, again, that night we heard the rat go into the cereal box and eat the poison. Again, I told my husband to find it ASAP.

He couldn't find it.

It didn't die.

One night, just as I was drifting off to sleep, my husband rolled off the bed, opened the bathroom door and said, "Got it!"

He's heard the rat moving around and managed to catch it in the cereal box. He transported it out to the woods and released it.

So, if a whole bag of rat poison failed to kill a little very hungry rat... Cyanide is much more powerful than rat poison.

(I don't take sudafed any more except under certain medical conditions; it raises my blood pressure. I am aware that it can be made into meth. But fills a legitimate and very useful every day use. Cyanide is a totally different class.

Most comments are focusing on the Amazon angle, rather than the horrifically sexist response by Penn.

Pretty nauseatingly accepting of rape culture.