Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Suicides spiked after death of Robin Williams

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) In the months after Robin Williams committed suicide in 2014, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health documented a marked 10 percent increase in of suicides. Males aged 30 to 44 were particularly affected. The data also showed there was a 32 percent increase in suffocation suicides in the five months that followed Williams' death by the same method, compared to a 3 percent rise for all suicides from other methods.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2BfWQSX

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