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- anzelina
with this talk of kurt cobain and elliott smith up on here, i was wondering this :
is there a notable rise in suicides after someone like one of the above figures commits [or allegedly commits] suicide?
what about movies like the virgin suicides? did it cause any increase in suicides?
anyone know any statistics on this?
- lowimpakt0
i doubt it.
although when a friend of mine killed himself a college-class mate of his killed himself a few weeks after
- scarabin0
i killed myself after seeing virgin suicides
- mg330
Anyone who kills themself after their idol does, hmmm, well, that's pretty damn sad.
- JazX0
i killed myself after seeing virgin suicides
scarabin
(Aug 18 05, 08:13)lol
- k770
looking good scarabin
- radar0
I think it's alot more common than we know, you only hear about celebrities and one's that take a some of the student body with them.
I bet everyone here knows atleast 1 person, I personally know of 3.
- shellie0
when elliot smith.. the silverlake king comitted suicide by stabbing himself in the heath with a knofe (so emo) i expected at least a few of his crazy ass fans to follow ass fans to follow in his footsteps. so far i havent heard of anything... but i wouldnt surprised when i do.
it's retarded that its a whenand not an if in that last statement.
- vespa0
yes there is a link. the uk definately has a media policy of not being allowed to publicise the manner in which someone commits suicide, as there are proven links between media publicity and copycats.
after kurt cobain killed himself i remember 2 girls jumped off a bridge at my local train station, wearing their kurt shirts.
http://www.poynter.org/resource/…
http://www.poynter.org/content/c…
http://www.mediawise.org.uk/prin…
- scarabin1
he stabbed himself in the heath with a knofe?
- DaveId1
actually there is.
in fact malcolm gladwell discusses it in a chapter of "the tipping point".
- soda0
in the UK TV companies are advised not to show suicide in programmes or storylines as statistics prove that the amount of attempts increase after fictional characters try it.
- scarabin0
there should be more suicide in boy band videos
- lowimpakt0
"Suicide is one of the world’s largest public health problems, accounting for approximately 1 million lives lost annually
- more lives lost than in all wars and homicides
worldwide every year- three times the catastrophic loss of human lives in the tragic Tsunami disaster in South East Asia at the end of last year
- a number equal to the loss in lives in the terrorist attack on New York 9.11.2001 –
every day of the year."
etc.
- anzelina0
i love the bits in delicatessan where the woman keeps failing to commit suicide.
- pascii0
harold and maude
- anzelina0
harold + maude = my favourite movie
- scarabin0
yay, i have that film
- lowimpakt0
lets all kill ourselves watching harold and maude