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switch8000 t1_is3y240 wrote

This is happening way too often.

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66Hanuman99 t1_is4bqr2 wrote

the world is in a shit place right now.. RIP....

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elizabeth-cooper t1_is5mdpr wrote

NYC has among the lowest suicide rates in the country because suicide with a (legal) gun is the most reliable method and legal guns are hard to come by around here.

Just because you can recall a number of recent suicides doesn't mean they're particularly common. It's like this sub keeps forgetting that NYC's population is almost 9 million and that "per capita" is a thing.

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Expensive-Ad-5543 t1_isa8zb9 wrote

That may be true but from the statistics I’ve seen, suicide has been up since the beginning of Covid

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FantasticStock t1_is97g3j wrote

Oh god yes hit us with that “sTaTisTicAlLy sPEaKinG NYC iS aT An aLL TiMe LoW”

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SaintBrutus t1_is5dxdx wrote

How often has this happened in the last year?

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switch8000 t1_is5eh2w wrote

I think we’ve had 3’ish each month? This one is like the 5th since sept 1, I believe.

Specifically jumpers. It could also be that they were never reported as much, they used to only publicize them if they injured or hurt someone else on their way down.

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Motor_Ad_473 t1_is5i07u wrote

> I think we’ve had 3’ish each month?

At least 2 just in midtown alone over the last few weeks

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Kane20XX t1_is4rqrz wrote

I thought journalists had an unwritten rule not to report on suicides

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HistoryAndScience t1_is56m4y wrote

This is not a rule. A journalist friend of mine told me that the general rule of thumb is if a person committed suicide at home, they won’t report on it. If it’s in a public place like this, it’s fair game and hard to cover up. People watched and filmed I imagine

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7JCY60 t1_is5n4di wrote

This is correct, but it's less about it being "fair game" and more about the fact that it happened in public and impacted others, making it news.

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CactusBoyScout t1_is7aefc wrote

I met a crime scene investigator once and he said any time media shows up to the scene of a death and he says “suicide” they just leave because it’s not newsworthy unless it’s something public like this. Even then, people kill themselves in parks all the time and it doesn’t make the news.

What’s sad is some people will leave notes about how they want the media to report on their suicide, he said. But their suicide at home isn’t newsworthy. Just shows how irrational people often are when they do it.

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thebruns t1_is7co6w wrote

> If it’s in a public place like this, it’s fair game and hard to cover up.

Eh, when I lived in DC there were weekly suicides on the metro and the Post would never report them as a policy.

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NiFT_y1 t1_is8bbnr wrote

Video anyone ?

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shotpun t1_is6ns9q wrote

if someone is so used to feeling unheard and unseen about their struggles with mental health at the height of a national mental health crisis, that this is the only way they can imagine being seen for as long as they live, that's a not a problem with the individual

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