Changes in Internet Suicide Search Volumes Following Celebrity Suicides

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 373-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby N. Ortiz ◽  
Lauren N. Forrest ◽  
Thomas J. Fisher ◽  
Michael Hughes ◽  
April R. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Internet Suicide

Internet Suicide Guidelines: Report of a Life-Threatening Poisoning Using Tobacco Extract

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 610-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Schneider ◽  
Nico Diederich ◽  
Brice Appenzeller ◽  
Anne Schartz ◽  
Christiane Lorang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Threatening ◽  
Internet Suicide ◽  
Tobacco Extract

Shared Death: Self, Sociality and Internet Group Suicide in Japan

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikako Ozawa-De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Social Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Rhetoric ◽  
Wish To Die ◽  
Internet Suicide ◽  
Basic Characteristics

Existing models for understanding suicide fail to account for the distinctiveness of Internet group suicide, a recent phenomenon in Japan. Drawing from an ethnography of Internet suicide websites, two social commentaries in Japanese popular culture, and the work of developmental psychologist Philippe Rochat, I argue that participation in Internet suicide forums and even the act of Internet group suicide result from both a need for social connectedness and the fear of social rejection and isolation that this need engenders. These needs and fears are especially strong in the case of Japan, where the dominant cultural rhetoric ties selfhood closely to the social self that is the object of perception and experience by others. I show how such an understanding of Internet group suicide helps us to understand some of its basic characteristics, which are otherwise difficult to explain and which have puzzled the Japanese media and popular accounts: the “ordinariness” or casual nature of Internet group suicide, the wish for an easy or comfortable death, the wish to die with others, and the wish to “vanish.” Internet group suicide sheds light on questions of Japanese selfhood in modernity and expands our understanding of suicide in Japan in general.

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