Suicide and Social Media

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A key strategy in suicide prevention is to talk about suicide and to ask those you suspect of being suicidal whether they are thinking of harming themselves. 

Somewhat paradoxically, it is also true that suicides, especially among teenagers, appear to happen in clusters and so there is this notion that suicide is contagious.

A recent internet posting from New Zealand prompted this blog post on our Suicide Prevention page on Facebook.