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How suicide can spread like a deadly virus to family and friends
Trent Dalton
The Australian
March 22, 2014 12:00AM
...Why write a 5000-word magazine story about suicide and risk planting the idea of suicide in another young person?s mind? Because suicide prevention is contagious too. If suicide is an idea passed through social circles, through schoolyards, through gossip networks, then suicide prevention must trace its serpentine path.
?There is a worldwide phenomenon happening right now and it?s very, very new, where we are finally understanding that the impact of suicide is a public health issue and the sheer numbers make it a public health issue,? says Jill Fisher, the groundbreaking Australian ?suicidologist? who established in 2002 the 24-hour StandBy Response Service for families and friends bereaved through suicide, and oversees the only federally funded program responding to suicide contagion and clusters across Australia. ?If your loved one dies in a car accident you?re not likely to die in a car accident, but if your loved one dies in a suicide, you immediately go into that at-risk group.?...
How suicide can spread like a deadly virus to family and friends
Trent Dalton
The Australian
March 22, 2014 12:00AM
...Why write a 5000-word magazine story about suicide and risk planting the idea of suicide in another young person?s mind? Because suicide prevention is contagious too. If suicide is an idea passed through social circles, through schoolyards, through gossip networks, then suicide prevention must trace its serpentine path.
?There is a worldwide phenomenon happening right now and it?s very, very new, where we are finally understanding that the impact of suicide is a public health issue and the sheer numbers make it a public health issue,? says Jill Fisher, the groundbreaking Australian ?suicidologist? who established in 2002 the 24-hour StandBy Response Service for families and friends bereaved through suicide, and oversees the only federally funded program responding to suicide contagion and clusters across Australia. ?If your loved one dies in a car accident you?re not likely to die in a car accident, but if your loved one dies in a suicide, you immediately go into that at-risk group.?...