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We used to consider suicides random, stemming from mental imbalance of a person, due to certain tragic circumstances for him, for which reason he decides bring scores to life. But it turns out not so simple. For instance, David Philips, University of California Case Studies Scientist suicide for more than twenty years, discovered amazing phenomena, inherent in this phenomenon.
Suicide Imitation
It would seem that people used to imitate anything, nevertheless selectively select the best examples for this. Ah no it turned out, as soon as information about suicide appeared in the media, immediately, suicide cases increase sharply in the district. Moreover, people end their lives in exactly the same way as described, say in a newspaper.
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This is the so-called Werther phenomenon. The fact is that after the release the novel The Suffering of Young Werther (Goethe, 1774), in which the main character shot himself because of unhappy love in Europe a wave of such suicides swept through. In some countries the government even banned this book. In Russia, for example, something Karamzin’s “Poor Liza” caused this, after which many the girls, imitating the heroine, rushed into the pond.
Suicide due to feeling of loss
Often people die with the loss of their idol, and this is again not a close person, not a relative, but simply A famous person in society, for example, a popular actor or singer. IN in this case, says David Philips, a person is likely to there is a message about the death of his idol at the most inopportune moment life, when for some reason he does not want to live, say, with him very difficult financial circumstances. And then there’s the death of an idol … And a person commits such a crime against his personality.
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For example, in 1925, literally swept across the Soviet Union a wave of suicides after the death of Sergei Yesenin. It is also clear that his wife took his own life – right on the poet’s grave. But there were hundreds of similar suicides …
Roughly the same thing happened in American society in 1962. the year after the tragic death of the famous actress Marilyn Monroe – during the first month alone, more than two hundred committed suicide human. In 1994, the idol of youth Kurt Cobain – the leader rock group “Nirvana”. And before the end of that year, his songs were finished with the lives of dozens of boys and girls. And there are many such cases, moreover “imitators” most often try to escape from life by the same in a way that their idol …
The media can stop suicide
However, the media can not only promote such suicide, but also stop the massive suicide. For example, in the eighties of the last century in Vienna for some reason there was a surge in suicide in the subway – people massively rushed under the wheels of locomotives. Doctors analyzed the situation and came to the conclusion that the media, which already too colorful and romantic describe the cases of suicide in the subway.
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Some work was done with the journalists of the capital, after what in the newspapers and on television about suicides in the subway became write and speak in a very restrained language of dispassionate information. And suicide cases in the subway were immediately reduced by 75 percent.
Suicides and disasters
David Philips also discovered another interesting phenomenon related to with suicides. For example, as soon as information about another suicide, road accidents immediately increase with fatalities. A little later, the researcher determined that even plane crashes are connected in much the same way with suicides. And on the roads and in the air at this time accidents occur, in which, as a rule, involved only one driver or pilot.
However, it is worth slipping through the suicide report in conjunction with killing, the number of victims of road accidents is increasing, in this case the aircraft crash with already a large number of people on board. Maybe this also suicides, only disguised as accidents? For example, to maintain your reputation, insurance for relatives, and so on.
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Psychologists believe that in this case, drivers, pilots simply don’t give an account of what they are doing, but subconsciously imitate suicide, this is the so-called psychological infection. Notice they say, most often it is connected with one person, and according to age and gender, it corresponds exactly to the suicide, about whom Media reported. So, if the newspaper described the suicide of a young people, it was the guys in this case crashed into a car on poles and trees, and if an elderly person turned out to be a suicide, then in an accident only people of the same age perished. And blame it all on randomness just doesn’t work …
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