Please be careful, that's not the conclusion, this from the CDC: In addition to recognizing the types of news coverage that can promote suicide contagion, the

Please be careful, that's not the conclusion, this from the CDC: In addition to recognizing the types of news coverage that can promote suicide contagion, the workshop participants strongly agreed that reporting of suicide can have several direct benefits. Specifically, community efforts to address this problem can be strengthened by news coverage that describes the help and support available in a community, explains how to identify persons at high risk for suicide, or presents information about risk factors for suicide. An ongoing dialogue between news media professionals and health and other public officials is the key to facilitating the reporting of this information. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm We absolutely need to talk about this problem. No one is helped by silence.