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Austrian Study on Celebrity Gun Suicide and Firearm Suicide Rates
In Austria, researchers documented a marked rise in firearm-related suicides during a three-week span after the nation's leading newspaper ran extensive coverage of a well-known figure's suicide by gun, offering further evidence that heavy media coverage of a celebrity suicide can precede a measurable uptick in suicides using the same method (Etzersdorfer, Voracek, & Sonneck, 2004).
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