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Suicides Spiked After Robin Williams' Death, Study Says
http://time.com/5137194/robin-wi…The Science Behind Suicide Contagion
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/…Is Suicide Contagious? A Study of the Relation between Exposure to the Suicidal Behavior of Others and Nearly Lethal Suicide Attempts
https://academic.oup.com/aje/art…- If the data is to be believed, the media should be responsible for the lives taken after broadcasting the suicide of a celebrity.imbecile
- The data's to be believed - this is a long-known correlation - but it's a bit disingenuous to blame the media for merely reporting, no?detritus
- not at all. if the media knows their broadcast will cause a suicide spike, they are knowingly causing death, as anonymous as it may be.imbecile
- re: 3rd article... why expose if it is known that attempts will increase? irresponsible, but a secondary benefit of population culling now that I think about itimbecile