Media depictions of possible suicide contagion among celebrities: A cause for concern and potential opportunities for prevention.

SUICIDE prevention; SUICIDE & psychology; ALCOHOLISM; BEHAVIOR; BEREAVEMENT; MASS media; MENTAL health; PUBLIC opinion; HARM reduction; SOCIAL learning theory; SOCIAL media; SUICIDAL ideation

The article focuses on the treatment of suicide contagion among celebrities. It mentions about how media reporting framed suicide deaths in a group of celebrities as possible suicide clustering. It also mentions that news media organizations could encouraged to solicit personal stories of help seeking and resilience from their members to be disseminated concurrent with coverage of a suicide death in order to promote the message that suicidal crises can be and are overcome.