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Suicide is not "sudden death", wtf. I don't understand what would make them use another word like that? Is "suicide" bad for SEO or something?

by remram 2y ago

mrkpdl 2y ago
I’m not sure how it is in America, but in Australia there are standards followed when reporting on suicide. So perhaps this is a similar practice. https://www.presscouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SPECIFIC_STANDARDS_SUICIDE_-_July_2014.pdf https://www.presscouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S...
gdjskshh 2y ago
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Cotterzz 2y ago
By all accounts he did die suddenly. Whether it was suicide is for a coroner to determine. I think that's the reason for the seemingly obtuse language. Edit - The article does mention a death certificate confirming suicide, so you're right - the wording is a bit odd.
Rastonbury 2y ago
There is a correlation between media reporting on suicides and suicides in the area, likely due copycats of people on the precipice. Obviously we also cannot stop reporting on the topic totally, so this is the balance, also why you find suicide helplines alongside such articles.
- seb1204 2y ago
  Reading this halfway around the globe I wonder what local area they are referring to? The globe?
  - Rastonbury 2y ago
    I think the effect was noted/studied before Internet so as to separate it from broader country or global trends
jampekka 2y ago
The first paragraph of TFA: > The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. "I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unjust processes possible with the university," wrote the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and director of NC State's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. Hours later, campus police found that Brain had died by suicide. The headline is admittedly a bit weird.
tonypace 2y ago
Imagine it came with dozens of downvotes on every social platform. Certainly all current events channels on YouTube avoid it religiously. I assume they have reason.
semiquaver 2y ago
It’s a common euphemism. The article text clarifies that he died by suicide. What’s the problem?
mrguyorama 2y ago
>Is "suicide" bad for SEO or something? Youtube for example will outright demonetize your video if you mention suicide. That's their official policy as stated https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802245?hl=en&ref_topic=9282679 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802245?hl=en&ref_... . It's stupid as fuck. As the GameGrumps team (very progressive people) mockingly stated: "It's so easy to solve the problem when we can't talk about it" It is usually taken as a given that TikTok will just not surface your content if you say suicide, but I'm not active on tiktok and have no source. Like all these absurd restrictions on content, it is not driven by liberals, or policy, or law. It is entirely driven by the fact that Coke does not want to pay for the ad space next a video talking about a difficult subject. It's the free market baby.

Suicide is not "sudden death", wtf. I don't understand what would make them use another word like that? Is "suicide" bad for SEO or something?

by remram 2y ago

Suicide is not "sudden death", wtf. I don't understand what would make them use another word like that? Is "suicide" bad for SEO or something?

mrkpdl 2y ago

I’m not sure how it is in America, but in Australia there are standards followed when reporting on suicide. So perhaps this is a similar practice. https://www.presscouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/SPECIFIC_STANDARDS_SUICIDE_-_July_2014.pdf https://www.presscouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S...

gdjskshh 2y ago

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Cotterzz 2y ago

By all accounts he did die suddenly. Whether it was suicide is for a coroner to determine. I think that's the reason for the seemingly obtuse language. Edit - The article does mention a death certificate confirming suicide, so you're right - the wording is a bit odd.

Rastonbury 2y ago

There is a correlation between media reporting on suicides and suicides in the area, likely due copycats of people on the precipice. Obviously we also cannot stop reporting on the topic totally, so this is the balance, also why you find suicide helplines alongside such articles.

seb1204 2y ago
Reading this halfway around the globe I wonder what local area they are referring to? The globe?
- Rastonbury 2y ago
  I think the effect was noted/studied before Internet so as to separate it from broader country or global trends

jampekka 2y ago

The first paragraph of TFA: > The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. "I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unjust processes possible with the university," wrote the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and director of NC State's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. Hours later, campus police found that Brain had died by suicide. The headline is admittedly a bit weird.

tonypace 2y ago

Imagine it came with dozens of downvotes on every social platform. Certainly all current events channels on YouTube avoid it religiously. I assume they have reason.

semiquaver 2y ago

It’s a common euphemism. The article text clarifies that he died by suicide. What’s the problem?

mrguyorama 2y ago

>Is "suicide" bad for SEO or something? Youtube for example will outright demonetize your video if you mention suicide. That's their official policy as stated https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802245?hl=en&ref_topic=9282679 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802245?hl=en&ref_... . It's stupid as fuck. As the GameGrumps team (very progressive people) mockingly stated: "It's so easy to solve the problem when we can't talk about it" It is usually taken as a given that TikTok will just not surface your content if you say suicide, but I'm not active on tiktok and have no source. Like all these absurd restrictions on content, it is not driven by liberals, or policy, or law. It is entirely driven by the fact that Coke does not want to pay for the ad space next a video talking about a difficult subject. It's the free market baby.