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The realization that suicide has contagious properties does have practical ethical ramifications for journalism. It's not some impractical theoretical matter t
by catalogia 7y ago
The realization that suicide has contagious properties does have practical ethical ramifications for journalism. It's not some impractical theoretical matter that can't be acted on.
- totalZero 7y agoI went to a talk on this very matter. Kurt Cobain's suicide is an interesting case study on how journalism affects the development (or attenuation) of suicide clusters. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8897665 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8897665