By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. We’ve written and reposted multiple times explaining how the number of suicides–or requests for “assistance” in suicide–spikes when such deaths are portrayed in a sympathetic, even laudatory fashion. The following post brilliantly...
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“Papageno” and “Werther “effects–public policy lessons for the prevention of suicide
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. We’ve written and repost multiple times explaining how the number of suicides--or requests for “assistance” in suicide--spikes when such deaths are portrayed in a sympathetic, even laudatory fashion. The following ran a few years...
Papageno and Werther effects–public policy lessons for the prevention of suicide
By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. This post ran in 2011, but I did not run across it until today. It is a brilliant explanation of how suicide should not be portrayed in the media—and why. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and is CEO of Christian Medical...