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Tue Mar 4 23:15:07 GMT 2008

I don't think we have to worry about Fox stopping reporting
anything- at least if it's bloody or perverse

R Wigle MD
--- Charles Brault <c_brault at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The phenomenom has long been identified
> 
> Copycat suicides in the Subway
> Or copy cat suicide following similar events in popular
> soap operas
> 
> To the point that in Montreal
> The press (voluntarly) does not report subway suicides
> And it works
> 
> Wich is scary
> Because I could see a socialy responsible press
> STOP reporting on many things
> Guesome murders
> Name and ID of mass murder
> Presence or absence of smoke detector at fires
> No cigarettes or suicides in films or TV
> 
> If the link can be strongly corelated
> Than in the same way we banned cigarettes in public place
> 
> Then I believe it will also support banning information
> 
> Scary in a sense
> 
> Charles
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "Paul.Harrison at sth.nhs.uk"
> <Paul.Harrison at sth.nhs.uk>
> To: trauma-list at trauma.org
> Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 9:33:08 AM
> Subject: RE: Suicide blip
> 
> For those of you current with UK media, you could not
> have missed the
> current reports suggesting recent 'clusters' of
> successful teenage
> suicides may be linked to one or more of: social
> networks, internet
> sites, peer culture and press reporting
> 
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3241490.ece
> 
> Any relevance here to elsewhere?
> 
> Paul Harrison
> Clinical Development Officer
> Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Centre
> Sheffield UK
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
> [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of
> Stephen Richey
> Sent: 01 March 2008 02:58
> To: trauma-list at trauma.org
> Subject: Re: Suicide blip
> 
> One of my former colleagues who is still in full time
> clinical practice
> stated he has seen several of the weirdest methods over
> the past few
> months
> that he has ever encountered.  He reported a suicide by
> nail gun, one by
> drinking Drano (which I have previously seen myself on
> one occasion
> before)
> and asphyxiation with an old fire extinguisher.  All of
> these happened
> in
> the same jurisdiction over the space of about a month.  I
> am not sure
> how
> the overall rate has changed if at all, but apparently
> the people in
> rural
> Illinois may be getting more inventive in their ways of
> offing
> themselves.
> 
> 
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:22:24 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Jose Martinez <jommartz at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: Suicide Blip
> > To: "Trauma &amp, Critical Care mailing list"
> <trauma-list at trauma.org>
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > We haven't seen any increase in the suicide rates (in
> Costa Rica),
> just
> > the methods have changed. Usually we get the
> intoxicated or self
> inflicted
> > gun shot patients. But lately we have been getting some
> hangings. That
> is
> > out of the normal!
> >  Jose Martinez
> >
> >
> >
> > "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org> wrote:
> >  Our trauma service has seen a disturbing increase in
> suicides and
> > suicide attempts over the past couple of months. We're
> rural, so both
> > the numerators and denominators are small; but hear me
> out: for
> January
> > and February, we have six registered self-inflicted
> major traumas.
> > That's half again as many for all of '07, and six times
> the total for
> > Jan/Feb '06 and '07 combined. It's a blip; but it's a
> hell of a blip.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing the same?
> >
> > Pret Bjorn, RN
> > Bangor, ME USA
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> Stephen L. Richey, CRT
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> James
> Thurber
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