<story><title>Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates</title><url>https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2019/release-of-13-reasons-why-associated-with-increase-in-youth-suicide-rates.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csharpminor</author><text>Could you link to a source? This is interesting to me but I&amp;#x27;d like to know more about their method for arriving at those conclusions. I wasn&amp;#x27;t able to find the article&amp;#x2F;study you&amp;#x27;re referencing.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>NPR did a good story on a study that examined what shooters DO and DO NOT like.&lt;p&gt;They like videos of chaos and screaming.&lt;p&gt;They like their photo shown.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t like stories about the victims that make the victims seem like they&amp;#x27;re human.  What they were doing before the shootings, things they did with their lives, etc.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t like stories about the community itself that aren&amp;#x27;t just about the event (shooting).&lt;p&gt;I noticed NPR does a lot of stories about the the victims.&lt;p&gt;Nothing should be legally restricted, but I think news orgs can do their job 100% and still participate in a potentially helpful manner.   To be clear there is no science that says doing any of these things reduce any amount of shooting or such, but it seems like a reasonable theory that if they see shootings result in coverage they don&amp;#x27;t like, it might discourage them if they think they won&amp;#x27;t get what they want.</text></item><item><author>aphextim</author><text>Same reason that when they show the shooter&amp;#x27;s face all over the media and they give them tons and tons of attention, it typically spawns more copycats who are just lonely&amp;#x2F;sad&amp;#x2F;broken teens looking for the same attention.&lt;p&gt;In the show, this teen&amp;#x27;s suicide was portrayed to have had an impact on many students&amp;#x2F;families&amp;#x2F;teachers etc for a very long time after the incident. It almost glorified the suicide and the methods of leaving tapes behind.&lt;p&gt;Real suicide is not so glorious and does not leave a much of an impact as you would think, other than on the immediate family.&lt;p&gt;For example, when my mother committed suicide, my sister, grandparents and myself were impacted severely for a bit, but outside of our family circle it didn&amp;#x27;t have as much of an impact.&lt;p&gt;When I was in high school, we had a student commit suicide, which we ended up having 1 school meeting regarding it, but after about a week it had been forgotten by most and swept under the rug as everyone moved on to the next thing.&lt;p&gt;I guess I am biased based on my two experiences with suicide, however glorifying it in any way will only lead to more incidents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jt2190</author><text>Perhaps:&lt;p&gt;Thresholds of violence: How school shootings catch on, by Malcolm Gladwell &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;thresholds-of-violence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;magazine&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;19&amp;#x2F;thresholds-of-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gladwell interviewed about the article on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;448182623&amp;#x2F;how-riots-may-help-us-understand-school-shooters&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;448182623&amp;#x2F;how-riots-may-help-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates</title><url>https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2019/release-of-13-reasons-why-associated-with-increase-in-youth-suicide-rates.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>csharpminor</author><text>Could you link to a source? This is interesting to me but I&amp;#x27;d like to know more about their method for arriving at those conclusions. I wasn&amp;#x27;t able to find the article&amp;#x2F;study you&amp;#x27;re referencing.</text></item><item><author>duxup</author><text>NPR did a good story on a study that examined what shooters DO and DO NOT like.&lt;p&gt;They like videos of chaos and screaming.&lt;p&gt;They like their photo shown.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t like stories about the victims that make the victims seem like they&amp;#x27;re human.  What they were doing before the shootings, things they did with their lives, etc.&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t like stories about the community itself that aren&amp;#x27;t just about the event (shooting).&lt;p&gt;I noticed NPR does a lot of stories about the the victims.&lt;p&gt;Nothing should be legally restricted, but I think news orgs can do their job 100% and still participate in a potentially helpful manner.   To be clear there is no science that says doing any of these things reduce any amount of shooting or such, but it seems like a reasonable theory that if they see shootings result in coverage they don&amp;#x27;t like, it might discourage them if they think they won&amp;#x27;t get what they want.</text></item><item><author>aphextim</author><text>Same reason that when they show the shooter&amp;#x27;s face all over the media and they give them tons and tons of attention, it typically spawns more copycats who are just lonely&amp;#x2F;sad&amp;#x2F;broken teens looking for the same attention.&lt;p&gt;In the show, this teen&amp;#x27;s suicide was portrayed to have had an impact on many students&amp;#x2F;families&amp;#x2F;teachers etc for a very long time after the incident. It almost glorified the suicide and the methods of leaving tapes behind.&lt;p&gt;Real suicide is not so glorious and does not leave a much of an impact as you would think, other than on the immediate family.&lt;p&gt;For example, when my mother committed suicide, my sister, grandparents and myself were impacted severely for a bit, but outside of our family circle it didn&amp;#x27;t have as much of an impact.&lt;p&gt;When I was in high school, we had a student commit suicide, which we ended up having 1 school meeting regarding it, but after about a week it had been forgotten by most and swept under the rug as everyone moved on to the next thing.&lt;p&gt;I guess I am biased based on my two experiences with suicide, however glorifying it in any way will only lead to more incidents.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll do some searching.  I know it was on NPR, and within the last 3 years.</text></comment>