[stickfigure]

The meaning is reasonably clear to me: Robots.txt says "Don't archive this data. When the website dies, all the information dies with it." It's a kind of death pact.

[QuercusMax]

That's not a suicide note, though, in any way I understand it.

[stickfigure]

It's the inevitable suicide of the data.

Language gets weird when you anthropomorphize abstract things like "data", but I thought it was clever enough. YMMV.

[QuercusMax]

The suicide of the data listed in robots.txt? How? The whole point of the article is they ignore what you have written in your robots.txt, so they'll archive it regardless of what you say.

[stickfigure]

Correct, they are challenging your written wish for data-suicide.