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To: KeyLargo

But thanks to the media orgy, he has the attention he wanted in his spectacular death, and that will encourage another crazy person to begin planning their grizzly exit from the world’s stage. That happens when people no longer believe in Hell and God’s vengeance for evil, and just want to make the evening news.


7 posted on 03/29/2015 5:28:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

“But thanks to the media orgy, he has the attention he wanted in his spectacular death, and that will encourage another crazy person to begin planning their grizzly exit from the world’s stage.”

Sadly - Yes.

Even Dear Leader said: “If it bleeds, it leads”

Media coverage as a risk factor in suicide

S Stack

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Widespread coverage of a suicide in the media has long been thought to be capable of triggering copycat suicides in the mass public. In 1774, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Man Werther, a novel where the hero commits suicide due to a failed love affair, was banned in many European locations. It was perceived as responsible for imitative suicides in such places as Italy, Leipzig, and Copenhagen.

Systematic scientific investigations on copycat suicide began with the work of David Phillips in the 1970s. The largest possible copycat effect found was for the well known movie star Marilyn Monroe. During the month of her suicide in August 1962 there were an additional 303 suicides, an increase of 12%. In general, however, highly publicized stories increase the national suicide rate by only 2.51% in the month of media coverage.1

More than 40 scientific papers have been published on the impact of suicide stories in the media on suicide in the real world.

http://jech.bmj.com/content/57/4/238.full


14 posted on 03/29/2015 5:44:42 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: txrefugee
But thanks to the media orgy, he has the attention he wanted in his spectacular death, and that will encourage another crazy person to begin planning their grizzly exit from the world’s stage. That happens when people no longer believe in Hell and God’s vengeance for evil, and just want to make the evening news.

Too, too true. The Second Amendment isn't the problem; it's the First.

31 posted on 03/29/2015 7:24:46 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: txrefugee

Now that the world no longer believes in the sanctity of life, ...(we murder babies still in the womb)...life is expendable for whatever one might think in their minds.

Assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, has given rise to mothers and fathers killing their own children without shame, and a host of other crimes against “humanity”.


87 posted on 03/29/2015 2:37:25 PM PDT by caww
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To: txrefugee
hat happens when people no longer believe in Hell and God’s vengeance for evil, and just want to make the evening news.

Indeed. A couple seconds after he died he knew he made the wrong choice . Forever!

99 posted on 03/29/2015 6:02:27 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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