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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 26 Jul 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd

      Isn't their good public health reasons for doing so -- there are usually copy-cats after reports of high-profile suicides.

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    3. Rick | Possibly a wizard‏ @PersistentSeekr 26 Jul 2020
      Replying to @job_gyhb @HeerJeet @michaelbd

      They absolutely should, and do, all the time. Killing people to satisfy prurient curiosity is contemptible and it’s nice to see the media moving away from it.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @PersistentSeekr @HeerJeet @michaelbd

      There was some debate over this after Bourdain’s suicide. “A rise in suicide in Japan in the '90s--1998 saw a nearly 40% increase in Japanese suicides, and 70 people in Japan still kill themselves every day--drew Michiko Ueda to analyzing suicide prevention.”

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    5. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @evefairbanks @PersistentSeekr and

      “Over the past few years, she categorized a million public responses to Japanese suicides on Twitter. There were always waves of suicides after a celebrity suicide. Suicides that provoked a certain emotional response—surprise—were much more likely to trigger imitative suicides.”

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    6. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @evefairbanks @PersistentSeekr and

      “Public mourning of suicides may be ways for us to articulate the traits we hope we represent--being concerned with justice, punk rock--and a way of declaring our affiliation to the moral tribe that embodies these values. Posting a suicide hotline # does not dampen the effect.”

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    7. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @evefairbanks @PersistentSeekr and

      “Media guidelines on reacting to celebrity suicide now advise newspapers not to give celebrity suicides top billing and not to glorify the dead figure.” I don’t know if Adams counts as a celeb but some internal media guidelines shifted re: naming cause of death after Bourdain

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    8. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @evefairbanks @PersistentSeekr @HeerJeet

      Maybe that’s true. I’m just not sure this is a good approach.

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    9. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd @PersistentSeekr @HeerJeet

      I think the tone of coverage matters—if it feels as if the person achieves, in death, an outpouring of pure love and simple admiration they didn’t get in life, that sparks imitation

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    10. Michael Brendan Dougherty‏Verified account @michaelbd 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @evefairbanks @PersistentSeekr @HeerJeet

      Yes, although, this is part of why I'm concerned (even angry) that the moral gravity of suicide as an act is disappearing.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Jul 2020
      Replying to @michaelbd @evefairbanks @PersistentSeekr

      I think reticence out of worries about copy-cat cases doesn't diminish the gravity of suicide act -- quiet the reverse. It's what we can't speak that is sometimes most seriously taken.

      8:11 AM - 27 Jul 2020
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        1. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 27 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @michaelbd @PersistentSeekr

          I sort of agree--the attention that a widely-covered suicide gets, even if all call it a tragedy, helps drive imitation. One can be in a state of mind where one thinks "that act was successful, they got care and love," without connecting the dots that they will not appreciate it

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