Tuna, I think you made a very good point about the media spotlight around such events. It had a similar effect on suicide rates in teenagers in a town nearby town where I live. The Media focused on the drudgery of this town, on how there was no hope for its residents and claimed all sorts of stuff about teen suicide pacts and the like. None of the cases were related like that, but a message was made to impressionable youths that if they ended their lives they would be nationally and sometimes internationally known, tributes would be made, plaques in schools etc. Dangerous business.
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