Title: 
Headings: Suicide Contagion & Suicide Clusters
Suicide
 
Contagion
 
&
 
Suicide
 
Clusters

What
 
is
 
Suicidal
 
Contagion
 
and
 
what
 
are
 
Suicide
 
Clusters?

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Content: Social
 
media
 
will
 
spread
 
the
 
news
 
relentlessly
 
and
 
even
 
more
 
disconcerting
 
than
 
the
 
sheer
 
speed
 
with
 
which
 
it
 
is
 
shared,
 
is
 
the
 
fact
 
that
 
this
 
news
 
may
 
be
 
mostly
 
unmediated
 
and
 
unfiltered. Are
 
there
 
ways
 
that
 
this
 
news
 
can
 
be
 
disseminated
 
on
 
social
 
media
 
more
 
responsibly? The
 
answers
 
may
 
have
 
to
 
come
 
from
 
the
 
users
 
themselves. Where
 
mass
 
clusters
 
are
 
a
 
topic
 
of
 
debate,
 
there
 
is
 
no
 
mistaking
 
the
 
phenomenon
 
of
 
point
 
clusters. Joiner,
 
cited
 
above,
 
believes
 
mass
 
clusters
 
to
 
be
 
equivocal
 
but
 
does
 
not
 
doubt
 
the
 
existence
 
of
 
point
 
clusters. These
 
clusters
 
do
 
exist
 
in
 
mainstream
 
society. A
 
recent
 
number
 
of
 
suicides
 
in
 
the
 
small
 
city
 
of
 
Red
 
Deer,
 
Alberta,
 
is
 
showing
 
potential
 
characteristics
 
of
 
a
 
point
 
cluster. Six
 
high
 
school
 
males
 
had
 
all
 
killed
 
themselves
 
in
 
the
 
previous
 
year. Whether
 
these
 
individuals
 
knew
 
each
 
other
 
and
 
were
 
influenced
 
by
 
one
 
another’s
 
actions
 
is
 
still
 
unclear. A
 
Facebook
 
page
 
was
 
set
 
up
 
by
 
three
 
Red
 
Deer
 
girls
 
to
 
support
 
those
 
affected
 
by
 
the
 
suicides;