I asked a reporter at Unnamed Major Metropolitan Newspaper why they don't cover suicides. Why is it that, traditionally, in the press there's a veil of silence draped over taking your own life?
He said it's because they don't want to encourage the behavior. The concern is if they report on it, others will copy. There's no such apprehension when it comes to covering homicides, but I digress. "Plus there are far more suicides than murders and we don't cover every murder," is how another crime reporter put it.
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