Suicide and the Internet

Suicide and the Internet have increasingly important relationships as Internet use becomes more ubiquitous.

Suicide
Social aspects Altruistic Copycat Epidemic Legislation Philosophy Religious views Right to die Social isolation Social media and suicide Social support Voluntary euthanasia
Crisis Assessment of risk Crisis hotline (list) Intervention Prevention Suicide attempt Suicide watch
Types Assisted Bullying and suicide (list) Copycat Familicide Forced Honor Jauhar Mass Murder–suicide Prisoner suicide Rail Pact Internet Prayopavesa Sallekhana Sati Self-sacrifice Senicide Seppuku Sokushinbutsu Suicide attack Vatakkiruttal
Epidemiology Gender differences LGBT-related suicides Methods Rate by country Seasonal effects Suicidal person Youth suicide among LGBT youth
History List of suicides Suicide in antiquity List of suicides in the 21st century
In warfare Banzai charge Kamikaze Suicide mission
Related phenomena Alcoholism Anhedonia Anxiety disorder Autism spectrum Coping Coping planning Depression (mood) Grief Ideation Locations Major depressive disorder Mental disorder Neurodevelopmental disorder Non-suicidal self-injury Self-harm Substance abuse Suicidal ambivalence Suicide and the Internet Suicide and trauma Suicide awareness Suicide in colleges in the United States Suicide in music subcultures Suicide note Suicide survivor Suicide terminology Suicide tourism Suicidology Warning signs of suicide
By country Rate by country Australia Bangladesh Cameroon Canada China France Greenland India Iran Ireland Japan Lithuania Nepal Pakistan Romania Russia Singapore South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States
Organizations Compassion & Choices Death with Dignity National Center Dignitas Exit International Final Exit Network Hemlock Society

Several Internet suicides have occurred, and issues involving social media and suicide have gained some attention. A survey has found that suicide-risk individuals who went online for suicide-related purposes, compared with online users who did not, reported greater suicide-risk symptoms, were less likely to seek help and perceived less social support.[1] Jurisdictional hindrances have sometimes prevented governments from effectively restricting pro-suicide sites and sites that describe suicide methods.[2] In 2008, police in the United Kingdom expressed concern that "Internet cults" and the desire for achieving prestige via online memorials may encourage suicides.[3]

Although there are concerns that the Internet may be a dangerous platform, where suicidal people might find suicide methods or encouragement to kill themselves,[4] research has shown that the internet is more likely to have a positive than a negative influence.[5][6]

References

Harris, Keith; McLean, John; Sheffield, Jeanie (July 2009), "Examining Suicide-Risk Individuals Who Go Online for Suicide-Related Purposes", Archives of Suicide Research, 13 (3): 264–276, doi:10.1080/13811110903044419, PMID 19591000, S2CID 205804938
Mishara, Brian L.; Weisstub, David N. (2007), "Ethical, legal, and practical issues in the control and regulation of suicide promotion and assistance over the internet", Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Suicide & life-threatening behavior, 37 (1): 58–65, doi:10.1521/suli.2007.37.1.58, ISSN 0363-0234, PMID 17397280
Nick Britten and Richard Savill (23 Jan 2008), Police fear internet cult inspires teen suicides, Telegraph
Prior, Trevor (August 2004), "Suicide Methods From the Internet", The American Journal of Psychiatry, Am J Psychiatry, 161 (8): 1500–1, doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.161.8.1500-a, PMID 15285986
Kemp, C. G., & Collings, S. C. (2011). Hyperlinked suicide: Assessing the prominence and accessibility of suicide websites. Crisis, 32(3), 143-151. doi: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000068
Harris, K. M. (2015). Life vs. death: The suicidal mind online. In E. Aboujaoude & V. Starcevic (Eds.), Mental Health in the Digital Age: Grave Dangers, Great Promise (pp. 135-151). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Suicide
Suicide crisis	Assessment of suicide risk Crisis hotline List of suicide crisis lines Suicidal ideation Suicide intervention Suicidology Suicide prevention Suicide watch
Social aspects	Awareness Legislation Philosophy of suicide Religious views Euthanasia Right to die Benevolent suicide Suicide survivor Literature Suicide and the Internet
Suicide types	Assisted suicide list Bullying and suicide list Copycat Familicide Forced Honor Jumping from height locations Mass Murder–suicide Vatakkiruttal Seppuku Sokushinbutsu Sallekhana Sati Prayopavesa By train Self-sacrifice Banzai charge Kamikaze Senicide Suicide attack By cop By pilot Pact
Epidemiology	Sex differences List of countries by suicide rate LGBT-related suicides Antidepressants and suicide risk
History	Suicide in antiquity List of suicides heads of state and government in the 21st century
Related	Suicide attempt Self-harm Suicide methods Suicide note Last words Tourism Suicide prevention contract
By subculture	Doctors LGBT youth Music subcultures Prisoners Youth
By country	Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Cameroon Canada China France Denmark Greenland Guyana India farmers Iran Japan Kazakhstan Lithuania Mozambique Nepal Pakistan Russia Singapore South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United Kingdom United States college farmers military veteran Native American teenage

Digital media use and mental health
Proposed or recognised diagnostic categories	Computer addiction Internet addiction disorder Internet sex addiction Online problem gambling Problematic smartphone use Nomophobia Problematic social media use Television addiction Video game addiction
Disciplines involved	Digital anthropology Digital sociology Human factors and ergonomics Cognitive ergonomics Computer-mediated communication Engineering psychology Human–computer interaction Media naturalness theory Neuroergonomics Neuroscience Psychiatry Evolutionary Psychology Clinical Cognitive Evolutionary Social
Associated psychiatric conditions	Anxiety disorder Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Autism Depression Eating disorder Anorexia nervosa Body image disturbance Insomnia Narcissistic personality disorder
Attention	Attention economy Attention inequality Attention management Attention span Betteridge's law of headlines Chumbox Clickbait Digital zombie Doomscrolling Human multitasking Media multitasking Mobile phones and driving safety Phubbing Smartphones and pedestrian safety Texting while driving Influence-for-hire Infodemic Information explosion Information overload Information pollution Information–action ratio Infotainment Knowledge gap hypothesis Missing white woman syndrome Neophile One weird trick Rage farming Screen time Binge-watching Social aspects of television Television consumption Sticky content Tabloid television Yellow journalism
Cognitive bias/ Conformity	Availability heuristic Bandwagon effect Confirmation bias Conformity Echo chamber False consensus effect False-uniqueness effect Fear of missing out Filter bubble Mean world syndrome Negativity bias Overchoice Peer pressure Pluralistic ignorance Self-deprecation Social-desirability bias Social influence bias Social media bias Spiral of silence Toxic positivity
Related topics	Affective polarization Behavioral modernity Body image Cognitive miser Computer rage Criticism of Facebook 2021 Facebook company files leak Cyberbullying Promotion of anorexia Social media and suicide Suicide and the Internet Criticism of Netflix Digital detox Digital divide Effects of violence in mass media Evolution of cognition Evolutionary mismatch Griefer Knowledge divide Mass shooting contagion Media manipulation Moral panic Online dating Online youth radicalization Sealioning Social bot Social impact of YouTube Technophilia Technophobia Technostress Violence and video games

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Suicide and the Internet

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