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	Suicide Reference Library
		Suicide contagion is the exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one's family, one's peer group, or through media reports of suicide and can result in an increase in suicide and suicidal behaviors.
		Following exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors within one's family or peer group, suicide risk can be minimized by having family members, friends, peers, and colleagues of the victim evaluated by a mental health professional.
		Copycat suicides are more likely to follow the suicide of a celebrity than if a member of the general population takes their own life, US study findings indicate.
	www.suicidereferencelibrary.com /test4~id~667.php (588 words)

	ooBdoo
		The person feeling suicidal may often be made to feel rejected and guilty by those to whom they have confided their thoughts and feelings.
		Suicidal ideation can be described as a result from the experience of emotional pain outweighing the individual's coping strategies and resources for dealing with that pain.
		Suicidal attacks by pilots were common in the 20th century: the attack by U.S. torpedo planes at the Battle of Midway was very similar to a kamikaze attack.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Suicide (4385 words)

	Qwika - similar:Cult_suicide
		Suicide Booth on Futurama A suicide booth is a fictional machine in some science-fiction.
		Suicide booths appear in the Japanese manga Battle Angel Alita and the American animated series Futurama, while compulsory self-execution booths were featured in one episode of Star Trek.
		Applewhite convinced 39 followers to commit suicide so that their souls could take a ride on a spaceship that they thought was hiding behind the comet; members repor...
	www.qwika.com /rels/Cult_suicide (1344 words)

	Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics
		Suicide contagion is said to occur when exposure to suicidal acts appears to trigger copycat suicidal acts.
		CDC 1994) based on the assumption that individuals contemplating suicide who see suicide or suicidal individuals rewarded (in attention and/or positive evaluation) may infer that suicide is an appropriate response to their distress.
		The suicide contagion hypothesis is that exposure to suicide is a suicide risk-factor for people experiencing an unresolved conflict as to whether suicide is an appropriate response to current unresolved distress.
	cfpm.org /jom-emit/2001/vol5/marsden_p.html (2907 words)

	Copycat suicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
		The nature of copycat suicides suggests that it is a phenomenon that must have been with us since the development of civilization.
		Publishing the means of suicides, romanticized and sensationalized reporting, particularly about celebrities, suggestions that there is an epidemic, glorifying the deceased and simplifying the reasons all lead to increases in the suicide rate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copycat_suicide (907 words)

	Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program: Reporting on Suicides
		Findings from numerous American and international studies during the last thirty years indicate the likelihood of copycat suicides are increased by certain types of reporting.
		The classic cases are the increase in the national suicide rate by 17% after Marilyn Monroe died by suicide and the international copycat suicides after Kurt Cobain’s death.
		Such actions may contribute to suicide contagion by suggesting to susceptible persons that society is honoring the suicidal behavior of the deceased person, rather than mourning the person’s death.
	www.maine.gov /suicide/media/reporting.htm (853 words)

	A Deadly Contagion
		Specifically, the idea that Islamist belief is the root cause of suicide bombing is false; the majority of suicide bombings in the last two decades of the 20th century were conducted by the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, from a predominantly Hindu culture (Pape, 2003).
		Suicide bombers can be men or women aged anywhere between early teens to late forties, religious or secular, unemployed or employed, destitute or privileged, educated or uneducated, married or single, socially isolated or socially integrated (Pape, 2003).
		The psychology of individual acts of suicide and violence may be very different from the coordinated and planned group behaviour involved in suicide attacks, and the group motivation for media publicity may turn out to be insignificant.
	www.viralculture.com /pubs/terrorcontagion.htm (2172 words)

	Responsible Reporting of Suicide
		In the fight against suicide it has become increasingly clear that the public perception of suicide as an alternative in times of strife is a major under-pinning of the recent increase in such behaviours.
		We know that articles about suicide or attempts on the front page, concerning celebrities, with graphic detail or pictures, where "suicide" is part of the title and where the act is glorified in some way, increase the likelihood of influencing others - that is the likelihood of copycat.
		The "suicide bid" is again mentioned in paragraph 20 and again "discover Sherry with his wrists slashed and rush him to hospital" is in the tag under the picture, under Friday 9.00 a.m.
	www.presscouncil.org.au /pcsite/apcnews/nov97/martin.html (898 words)

	Teen: Youth Suicide
		Suicide is now the third highest cause of death in adolescents, and children as young as five have been reported to have committed suicide.
		It is also probable that suicidal statistics for teens are underreported, as they might overlook those whose reckless or dangerous behavior resulted in death, or those in which the cause can not be definitely identified.
		Teen depression and thoughts of suicide are more common than many adults assume and there are as many as 50 to 100 suicide attempts for every young person who actually takes his or her own life.
	www.babyart.org /teen/youth-suicide.html (748 words)

	Suicide
		Suicide rates tend to be significantly higher in two age groups - 15 to 24, and the elderly.
		People who have attempted suicide in the past, or who have a friend or family member who has suicided, are at risk.
		A person who feels suicidal may feel that s/he cannot be helped,so you may have to take the initiative to in setting up an appointment with a mental health professional in your area.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/depression_women/109520 (550 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A copycat suicide is defined as a duplication or copycat of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media.
		The nature of copycat suicides suggests that it is a phenomenon that must have been with us since the development of civilization.
		Publishing the means of suicides, romanticized and sensationalized reporting, particularly about celebrities, suggestions that there is an epidemic, glorifying the deceased and simplifying the reasons all lead to increases in the suicide rate.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Copycat_suicide (1070 words)

	Media Guidelines for Suicide - Suicide.org! Media Guidelines for Suicide - Suicide.org! Media Guidelines for Suicide - ...
		The media coverage of each suicide was sensational and extensive, and caused numerous “copycat” suicides.
		The term “committed suicide” is NOT accurate and is VERY hurtful to those who have attempted suicide and to suicide survivors.
		Suicide survivors also should be mentioned with the objective of helping them, supporting them, and providing them with resources and hope.
	www.suicide.org /media-guidelines-for-suicide.html (1448 words)

	The Independent Online - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Austrian Association for Suicide Prevention, a group formed to study the media’s handling of the situation during its peak, issued a set of media guidelines asking for voluntary restraint among journalists in both the level of detail in their reporting and their decision to run subway-suicide stories.
		Citing a statistic that shows more than 90 percent of suicide victims have significant psychiatric illnesses (mood disorders and substance abuse being the most common), the report urges journalists to emphasize that fact and convey to their readers or viewers that most of the illnesses are readily treatable.
		Additionally, the report says that surviving relatives and friends of a suicide victim, when given enough time to reflect, often realize later the presence of warning signs they had missed, even if their initial reaction was one of complete shock.
	www.missoulanews.com /News/News.asp?no=2104 (901 words)

	Help the media prevent copycat suicides
		They have found that the media likely played a role in approximately 10 percent of suicide deaths of people younger than 25--either by giving youths the idea to commit suicide or by providing youths already contemplating suicide with information about a specific method.
		A source in the article--titled "Loving couple chose death on the tracks"--described their suicide as a "Romeo and Juliet thing." Not only did such language romanticize the couple's deaths, but it also failed to address the role of drug abuse, Romer said.
		The reporter noted that depression is a factor in suicide and emphasized that shame and stigma lead many executives to avoid treatment.
	www.apa.org /monitor/oct03/media.html (386 words)

	Actress' suicide sparks copycat deaths - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seoul:: A celebrity suicide has triggered a wave of copycat suicides in South Korea in the past month, with wall-to-wall media coverage of the high-profile death blamed for the phenomenon.
		The "Werther Effect" refers to the spate of copycat suicides in Europe in the late 18th century triggered by Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther," in which the young protagonist shoots himself after being crossed in love.
		Journalists are requested not to glorify the suicide victims, nor to give graphic details of the scene or examine the cause of the death in details.
	sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=13701105 (621 words)

	Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma \| Special Reports
		The copycat phenomenon — the tendancy for crimes or suicides to increase after a similar event receives media attention — is certainly not unknown to reporters and editors.
		Clinical psychologist Frank Ochberg agrees that this issue of "the contagion of suicide" is one of the most difficult dimensions for journalists.
		Ochberg stresses that knowledge about depression and suicide is crucial for good reporting on the topic — reporters must know enough about the medical aspects of depression not to fear the topic.
	www.dartcenter.org /articles/special_features/suicide_03.htm (691 words)

	suicidal tendencies dampened
		There was also a wave of suicides among priests and their wives around 1075, after Pope Gregory VII imposed celibacy on the clergy, who had previously been allowed to marry.
		Thus, to claim that alcoholism "causes" suicide is simplistic; while the association of alcohol excess with suicide is clear, a causal relationship is not.
		This is where one suicide seems to be the trigger for others, and includes "cluster" and "copycat" suicides, most often among adolescents.
	www.befriendersindia.org /whysui.htm (1716 words)

	Honoring Nations 2000 >> White Earth Suicide Intervention Team
		The White Earth Suicide Intervention Team was created in 1990 in response to an extraordinarily high rate of suicide attempts and completions on the White Earth Reservation.
		Four tribal members had committed suicide within a several week period and the community feared that a cluster of copycat suicide attempts (and completions) might follow.
		The Team chose to focus their efforts on suicide intervention because they believed that, with limited time and scarce financial resources, this was an area in which their work could have the most impact.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /hpaied/hn/hn_2000_intervention.htm (1631 words)

	THE COPYCAT EFFECT
		The 1774 Goethe book The Sorrows of Young Werther caused so many copycat suicides of lovelorn young men who dressed alike and shot themselves at the same time at their writing desk- straight from the story- that it was banned in Germany, Italy and Denmark.
		In an exact copycat 3 months later, shockingly young boys aged 11 and 13 pulled the fire alarm at a Jonesboro AK junior high school and blasted their classmates (mostly girls) with an arsenal from the woods: 5 dead, 10 wounded.
		Copycatting isn’t rocket science, just simple observations of human nature, and no one is better at that than social scientists like Coleman.
	hammernews.com /copycateffect.htm (4890 words)

	Film prompts copycat suicide fears. 02/08/2006. ABC News Online
		Beyondblue chairman Jeff Kennett says he is worried that a new film containing a graphic depiction of suicide might encourage copycats.
		It is about a group of high school students, one of whom commits suicide during the film.
		Mr Kennett has not seen the movie yet but he says the way suicide is represented in the arts can have wide-reaching consequences.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200608/s1704102.htm (162 words)

	Suicide & Grief Glossary
		RATIONAL SUICIDE - Presumption of reasonable choice by the TERMINALLY ILL. REASONS FOR DYING - Set of faulty, self-biased beliefs that may be voiced by a SUICIDAL individual.
		SUICIDAL THREAT - Verbal statement(s) indicating that suicide is being considered.
		SUICIDE RATE - Occurrence of suicide in a given population or community.
	members.tripod.com /~LifeGard/index-2.html (2972 words)

	SUICIDE : Encyclopedia Entry
		This is usually met with a negative reaction, and these persons are often dissuaded from their feelings and beliefs, while others choose to disregard such pressures.
		Suicide survivors are often overwhelmed with psychological trauma as well, given that most suicides occur suddenly and without warning.
		Given these complex sets of emotions associated with a loved one's suicide, survivors usually find it difficult to discuss the death with others, causing them to feel isolated from their own network of family and friends and often making them reluctant to form new relationships as well.
	www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Suicide (4351 words)

	The Copycat Effect: How The Media and Popular Culture Trigger The Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines by Loren Coleman
		Copycats follow a regular temporal pattern that repeats - these could be after a primary media event in a day, a week, two weeks, a month, a year, ten years - vulnerable humans have internal media clocks...
		He left behind suicide notes for his wife and children; he told his wife this was self-hate because he had molested two extremely young female relatives 20 years ago (when he was 12 years old).
		From mass suicides in ancient times and across many cultures to the day to day tragedies of the new millennium, Coleman offers a litany of death, with an emphasis on how one senseless murder or suicide sparks others.
	www.lorencoleman.com /copycateffect (3191 words)

	Celebrity Suicide Prompts Copycats
		March 20, 2003 -- Media reports about celebrity suicides are 14 times more likely to prompt copycat suicides than other types of stories, according to a new study that also shows the type of media coverage suicide receives can have a major impact on copycat effects.
		For example, televised stories on suicide were 82% less likely to produce a copycat effect or surge in suicide rates than newspaper articles.
		These campaigns suggest that reducing the overall amount of press coverage of celebrity suicide or that of others is the most influential factor in preventing copycat suicides.
	www.webmd.com /mental-health/news/20030320/celebrity-suicide-prompts-copycats (464 words)

	:: Douglas Rushkoff - Weblog ::
		It's not that one event causes the other; rather, suicidal people are waiting for a cue, or a pilot who is already careless or flying under the influence of alcohol finally ends up crossing the barrier that, subconsciously, he had been dangerously testing all along.
		Were a murder or suicide not covered in the paper, there would be no copycat events.
		Suicide bombing is the virus, using the perpetrator to activate others.
	www.rushkoff.com /2005_07_01_archive.php (1302 words)

	Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC): SPRC Calendar
		Chicago, IL Suicide is currently ranked as the second leading cause of death among those aged 15 — 29.
		Four out of five victims give warning signs that they intend to die by suicide, but the signs are often not understood, recognized, or acted upon by family, peers, counselors, or school personnel.
		Among the topics to be presented are the prevalence of suicide, prevention efforts across the state, and help for survivors of suicide.
	www.sprc.org /featured_resources/trainingandevents/calendar (1463 words)

	Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide -- Stack 57 (4): 238 -- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
		Table 2 Differences between mean reductions in teenage suicides for stories with and without dangerous characteristics (corrected for the amount of publicity accorded each story) (n=32 televised stories)
		The impact of the suicide of a hero journalist: the case of Gaetan Girouard in Quebec.
		Suicide among youth: perspectives on risk and prevention.
	jech.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/57/4/238 (2043 words)

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