Saturday, March 07, 2009
Another death...
Here goes another Chinese guy from EEE who hanged himself dead.I can't help but be reminded of what I learnt previously about Werther Effect. You can read more about it here.
To put it simply, Werther Effect predicts that following a highly publicised suicide in the media (the stabbing incident was front-page news!), there will be a shocking increase in similar suicides from people with similar backgrounds in the week that follows. The first peak is on the 7th day and the second peak on the 11th.
In this case, today is the 5th. Will we see more of these?
Responsibility, people.
Labels: China, news, NTU, school, Singapore, Werther Effect
posted by QueenPig @ 3:30 PM
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