Excerpts from your CDC link, which I'm not quoting out of context: > In comparison with older persons, adolescents and young adults who commit suicide are less

Excerpts from your CDC link, which I'm not quoting out of context: > In comparison with older persons, adolescents and young adults who commit suicide are less likely to be clinically depressed or to have certain other mental disorders (3) that are important risk factors for suicide among persons in all age groups (4). This has led to research directed at the identification of other preventable risk factors for suicide among young persons. In other words, this may not apply to people who suffer from clinical depression, because they weren't the focus of this workshop. > These findings have induced efforts on the part of many suicide- prevention specialists, public health practitioners, and researchers to curtail the reporting of suicide -- especially youth suicide -- in newspapers and on television. Such efforts were often counterproductive, and news articles about suicides were written without the valuable input of well- informed suicide-prevention specialists and others in the community. Emphasis on the counterproductive part: they aren't recommending that suicides not be discussed at all, they are recommending changing how they are discussed: > ...and characteristics of news coverage that appear to foster suicide contagion were described. Again, they are describing specific types of news coverage. > Some characteristics of news coverage of suicide may contribute to contagion, and other characteristics may help prevent suicide. ... Clinicians and researchers acknowledge that it is not news coverage of suicide per se, but certain types of news coverage, that promote contagion. Persons concerned with preventing suicide contagion should be aware that certain characteristics of news coverage, rather than news coverage itself, should be avoided. They are reiterating that point again. It's probably important. The article then goes on to outline, in brief, the specific aspects of reporting which the workshop participants thought might promote contagion. Importantly, none of Feld's article featured any of those aspects. The CDC link concludes with this: > ...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.