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Motor Vehicle Fatalities Increase Just After Publicized Suicide Stories

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Suicide and Self-Harm Studies Traffic and Road Safety Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Abstract

The average increase in motor vehicle fatalities is 9.12 percent in the week after a suicide story. The more publicity given to the story, the greater the rise in motor vehicle deaths thereafter. This rise apparently occurs because suicide stories stimulate a wave of imitative suicides, some of which are disguised as motor vehicle accidents.

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1974The Influence of Suggestion on Suicide: Substantive and Theoretical Implications of the Werther Effect 1973A Dip in Deaths Before Ceremonial Occasions: Some New Relationships Between Social Integration and Mortality

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