Numerous offerings are available on the Internet for suicidal people desperately seeking advice. These can be divided into professional offerings run by crisis centres and those operated by non-professionals. Even the latter can help to improve the subjective situation, so long as they are so-called "anti-suicide forums".
The effect of media reports upon suicidal people has been investigated many times. We know about the "Werther effect", that is to say imitative behaviour based on sensational reports of suicides in the media, which serve as a role model.
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