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Copycat suicide

Emulation of another suicide

A copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. The publicized suicide serves as a trigger, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide by a susceptible or suggestible person. This is referred to as suicide contagion.[1]

A spike in emulation suicides after a widely publicized suicide is known as the Werther effect, after rumours of such a spike following the publication of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.[2][3]

Suicides occasionally spread through a school system, through a community, or in terms of a celebrity suicide wave, nationally. This is called a suicide cluster.[1]Point clusters are clusters of suicides in both time and space, and have been linked to direct social learning from nearby individuals.[4]Mass clusters are clusters of suicides in time but n

Suicide of Kurt Cobain

Death of Nirvana singer and guitarist

Kurt Cobain's Seattle home, adjacent to the greenhouse on his property where his death occurred (pictured in 2010)

Datec. April 5, 1994; 30 years ago (1994-04-05)
Location171 Lake Washington Blvd E, Seattle, Washington, U.S.
DeathsKurt Cobain

On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer and guitarist of the American rock band Nirvana, was found dead at his home on Lake Washington Boulevard in Seattle, Washington. Forensic investigators and a coroner later determined that Cobain had died on April 5, three days prior to the discovery of his body.[1] The Seattle Police Department incident report stated that Cobain was found with a shotgun across his body, had suffered a visible gunshot wound to the head and that a suicide note had been discovered nearby. Seattle police confirmed his death as a suicide.[2][3]

Following his death, conspiracy theories that Cobain was murdered were spread and reported to the FBI, partially due to an Unsolved Mysteri

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