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Quite the opposite. Reporting details of suicides has been proven to lead to an increase in attempts, and for attempts to be more successful. The Samaritans in
by ascorbic 9y ago
Quite the opposite. Reporting details of suicides has been proven to lead to an increase in attempts, and for attempts to be more successful. The Samaritans in the UK has good media guidelines on reporting of suicide: https://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide https://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-rep...
- lozenge 9y agoFYI, they also recommend describing a suicide as "completed" rather than "successful".
- DanBC 9y agoI prefer the National Union of Journalist guidelines. I frequently talk to reporters about the way they report suicide, and when I was using the Samaritans guidance journos would almost always say "but fredom of speech". Giving them guidance written by other journalists (and then giving them the Samaritans guidance) stopped them saying that. https://www.nuj.org.uk/documents/nuj-guidelines-for-responsible-reporting-on-mental-health/nuj-guidelines-for-reporting-mental-health-and-death-by-suicide.pdf https://www.nuj.org.uk/documents/nuj-guidelines-for-responsi... https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/guidelines-on-reporting-on-mental-health-suicide/ https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/guidelines-on-reporting-on-menta...