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where one posts ones suicide note online a sign of the times |
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"Now police are investigating the final message, discovered after Jodie and Stephanie were found hanged from the same tree in a national park in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne, on Sunday..." - brisbanetimes.com.au |
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| Achilleus | "At the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, a professor of adolescent health, George Patton, said the internet intensified the risk of "suicide contagion", a phenomenon first recognised upon the 1774 publication of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which featured a young man who killed himself over unrequited love. A spate of copycat suicides across Europe led to its banning in Germany, Italy and Denmark." | 070428 |