Yes,just imagine a 9 year old on internet or a random naive person in 20's doing this thinking something cool will happen.
the 4channers that do it will often say that something cool will happen and give an elaborate fake-science like, reasoning behind it to make it sound legitimate.
Why are people so evil? I mean some degree or trolling is okay but physically harming people for fun is just too much. It's evil.
Death sucks... but it sucks more when it isn't due to any fault of the person's stupidity. When we can blame the person who died of idiocy, we can smile knowing that the human gene pool has slightly increased in average intelligence.
A lot of us here are smart enough to know what to avoid and all, but there will always be people or kids who don't know any better and will fall for dangerous tricks or trust people they really shouldn't. Hopefully, we can look out for each other as a community when it comes to these things.