Series Of Suicides Research Articles

A Series of Suicides and Homicides by Cyanide in Türkiye: Exploring the Role of Media Reports and the Copycat Effect

Objectives: This paper focuses on the intentional deaths by cyanide that occurred in Turkey and aims to discuss the effect of internet and the media on these cases. Methods: Five highly circulated daily newspapers were selected and the term “siyanür”, which means “cyanide” in Turkish, were searched within their online search function between 2017-2021. A Google Trends analysis was performed with “siyanür+siyanur” as the keyword, “Turkey” as the region, and “1/1/2017-12/31/2021” as the custom time range. Results: Twenty different incidents and news reports of cyanide related suicides and/or homicides with 29 total deaths were found. In Google Trends analysis, seven out of total 8 periods of increased search interest coincided with the news reports related to cyanide deaths. Conclusions: The authors observed a surge in cyanide-related incidents following a highly publicized case in May 2019, with a peak in November 2019. The study highlights the influence of media coverage on subsequent incidents, with newspapers often using sensational headlines and providing detailed information on suicide methods. Reporting a news article on suicide requires great care and caution. Thus, the guidelines on reporting suicide related news should be implemented nationwide with a collaboration between media professionals and health-care experts.

An Analysis of the Content and Availability of Information on Suicide Methods Online

ABSTRACTObjective: To describe the types of content available to people searching online for suicide methods. Method: A series of suicide and suicide method-related searches were conducted through Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask search engines. Results: Most sites provided information on suicide methods and included discussion of suicide methods between users. Explicit encouragement of suicide was rare. However, dismissive or hostile responses to individuals expressing suicidal feelings were common. Conclusions: Information on suicide methods is easily found online. Mental health organizations may need to direct more efforts towards educating and training the public on how to appropriately respond to suicidal people.

Determinants of Farmers’ Suicide in India-A State Level Analysis

India is an agrarian country with around 48.9% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture. Despite a steady decline of its share in GDP, agriculture is still the largest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic development of our country. It is the main source of food to the growing population. Unfortunately due to uncertainty of monsoon, non-availability of credit, increasing prices of seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, agriculture has become a most critical industry and farmers are suffering due to economic distress and they are committing suicide on large scale in different provinces of the country. Nowadays the problem of farmers’ suicides is one of the vital concerns that need to be addressed by the Government. Considering the paramount importance of this issue, the NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau), for the first time, has collected detailed data on farmers’ suicides. The large section of the farm households has been facing a distress as a consequence of decline in agricultural income, declined repaying capacity and thereby increased debt burden than others. The failure of these monsoons leading to a series of droughts, lack of better prices, exploitation by Middlemen, all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India. With this backdrop this study is going to make a state level analysis of the determinants of the farmers’ suicide in India. The results have some policy implications.

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Do Suicides Cluster?

Three series of suicides were examined for evidence of clustering: suicides on the Hong Kong subway (1979-1989), suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge (1999-2009), and suicides in the Wayne County Jail (1967-1992). The inter-suicide intervals were examined for their fit to a random Poisson distribution and found not to differ significantly, indicating that there was no evidence for clustering.

Estudo da série histórica de mortalidade por suicídio no Espírito Santo (de 1980 a 2006)

OBJETIVO: Estudar a série histórica de suicídio no Estado do Espírito Santo (1980 a 2006) e suas estratificações. MÉTODOS: Estudo descritivo, retrospectivo, de série histórica. Foram incluídos os óbitos registrados no Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade como suicídio, de residentes no Espírito Santo (1980 a 2006). Foram construídas as séries históricas e calculados os coeficientes de mortalidade por suicídio para o período. Procedeu-se à padronização das taxas de mortalidade pelo método direto, em que a população do censo IBGE-2000 foi considerada padrão. Para cálculo das taxas, utilizou-se o Programa Excel 7.0. As equações de tendência linear e as estatísticas de ajuste de modelo (valor de R² e o valor p do teste F de adequação do modelo) foram obtidas do programa Statistical Package for Social. Sciences. O nível de significância adotado foi de 5%. RESULTADOS: A tendência de crescimento das taxas de suicídio no Estado foi de 24,9%. Para os homens, essa tendência de crescimento foi de 23,8%. As faixas etárias com tendência de crescimento foram aquelas entre 10 e 14 anos e acima de 30 anos até 59 anos. CONCLUSÃO: O suicídio foi mais frequente entre os homens, e as principais faixas etárias com tendência de crescimento foram aquelas entre 30 e 59 anos.

Securing a Suicide Hot Spot: Effects of a Safety Net at the Bern Muenster Terrace

The city of Bern has a high percentage of suicides by jumping (28.6%). Related to other local hotspots, the highest number of deaths (mean 2.5 per year) is found at the Muenster Terrace in the old city. In 1998, after a series of suicides, a safety net was built to prevent people from leaping from the terrace and to avoid further traumatization of people living in the street below. We analyzed the numbers of suicides by jumping before and after the installation of the net. We also assessed the number of media reports referring to this suicide method. After the installation of the net no suicides occurred from the terrace. The number of people jumping from all high places in Bern was significantly lower compared to the years before, indicating that no immediate shift to other nearby jumping sites took place. Furthermore, we found a moderate correlation between the number of media reports and the number of persons resident outside Bern committing suicide by jumping from high places in the city.

An Examination of Recent Suicides in Remote Australia: Further Information from the Kimberley

Aboriginal suicide has emerged as an issue of public concern only within the recent past. Within the last decade there has been a substantial increase from levels that were previously low. Under the shadow of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody these increases, involving primarily young adult males, raise serious questions. Two years ago the author examined a series of suicides that had occurred in one area of remote Aboriginal Australia, the Kimberly region of Western Australia. This paper examines suicides that have occurred in the following two years, with comparisons both with the previous suicides, and with a group of age-matched Aborigines from the general Kimberly population drawn from a random sample survey.

Health checks demand for remand centres.

Medical and nursing checks on prisoners at one of Britain's biggest remand centres have been demanded after a series of suicides.