Copycat suicide
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copycat-suicide-184-8215986
title:
Copycat suicide
text:
A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. The publicized suicide serves as a trigger, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide by a susceptible or suggestible person. This is referred to as suicide contagion. A spike in emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is known as the Werth
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encyclopedia
description:
Emulation of another suicide
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
date created:
2002-04-03T18:08:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T06:23:35Z
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