Suicide is contagious (Gladwell)
July 31st, 2007 | Published in Morality, Psychology, Quotes | 1 Comment
The central observation of those who study suicide is that, in some places and under some circumstances, the act of one person taking his or her own life can be contagious. Suicides lead to suicides…. [For instance,] immediately after [front page] stories about suicides appeared [in a local newspaper], suicides in the area served by the newspaper jumped….
–Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (2000), p. 222
October 29th, 2008 at 1:44 am (#)
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