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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Suicide clusters" at schools are a real issue. It's been known for a while that suicide can be considered a "contagion."

[quote]The suicide of a student has a rippling effect in the school environment as well as in the greater community, as a single adolescent death by suicide increases the risk of additional suicides. The process by which a completed suicide (or at times, suicidal behavior) increases the suicidal behavior of others is called contagion. When multiple suicides occur close in time and geographical area, at a rate greater than normally would be expected in a given community, it is considered a cluster (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 1988).[/quote] 
https://www.nasponline.org/publications/periodicals/communique/issues/volume-47-issue-5/suicide-contagion-and-clusters%E2%80%94part-1-what-school-psychologists-should-know

Part of what made the most recent suicide at UNC especially horrifying is that several people witnessed the person jump from the upper floor of a dorm.

It's good that the school shut things down for a couple of days. They've found that addressing the issue head-on instead of trying to cover it up is the best way to stop the suicide contagion.[/quote]

This is the answer. Suicide is “catching.”  I’ve seen it at several high schools. Remember W.T. Woodson?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/after-woodson-high-suicides-a-search-for-solace-and-answers/2014/04/11/8dd2a3b4-7f1d-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html

I had a conversation with my teen about this very thing last night. [/quote]

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