Resumen de Dangerous words
When US actor Robin Williams took his own life, a flood of media coverage followed. Some of it has been criticized for glamorizing his suicide in a way that might prompt vulnerable readers to follow suit. Research stretching back decades suggests that such fears are well founded. Empirical work on the possible role of the media on copycat or imitative suicide began with a seminal article by David Phillips of the University of California in San Diego in 1974 who checked the impact of 34 widely publicized suicides that were reported on the front page of The New York Times. Here, Stack examines whether the death of Williams will herald spike in suicides.
