“An alternative rock band’s claim that it will feature a “live suicide” onstage during a St. Petersburg gig next month has gotten the attention of the concert hall owners and local police.

The Tampa group, Hell on Earth, said on its Web site that a terminally ill member of a right-to-die group planned to commit suicide on stage during an Oct. 4 performance at the State Theater.

The volunteer, who the Web site said would not be identified until the day of the show, wanted to carry out the suicide onstage to “raise awareness for dying with dignity.” Sun-Sentinel

Dying with dignity? In front of thousands of drunken metalheads and journalists drooling with expectancy of a sensational scoop? As an accompanist to a band whose songs, according to Rolling Stone, ‘include “Toilet Licking Maggot” and “Raped by the Virgin Mary” and whose past stage stunts… include having intercourse with cows and drinking blended rats’?