What is Werther effect / Copycat Suicide and How is it related to the recent #NEETSuicide cases in #Tamilnadu ?

Facts about the publicized suicides which are believed to promote more suicides among the susceptibles...

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It all starts here :

In a novel, Werther (the hero) shoots himself with a pistol after he is rejected by the woman he loves, and shortly after its publication there were reports of young men using the same method to kill themselves in acts of hopelessness..

The publicized suicide serves as a trigger, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide by a susceptible or suggestible person. This is referred to as suicide contagion..

The Werther effect not only predicts an increase in suicide, but the majority of the suicides will take place in the same or a similar way as the one publicized.

The more similar the person in the publicized suicide is to the people exposed to the information about it, the more likely the age group or demographic is to die by suicide.

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People may see suicide as a glamorous ending, with the victim getting attention, sympathy, and concern that they never got in life.

A second possible factor is that vulnerable youth may feel, "If they couldn't cut it, neither can I"

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Various countries such as Norway have national journalism codes which state taht, "Suicide and attempted suicide should in general never be given any mention"

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Marilyn Monroe, whose death was followed by an increase of 200 more suicides than average for that August month is a classic example of these Copycat Suicides..

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All these Television Channels and Political Parties for their cheap benefit are exploiting the Lives of innocent Children in the Name of #NEET .

#NEET is a social Injustice yet this is way beyond that ...

This is injustice to the lives of the Children itself ...

@sumanthraman