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Why '13 Reasons Why' should heed to spike in suicide-linked Google searches

Show chronicles high school girl's suicide over course of 13 episodes with a suicide scene in finale

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Jon-Patrick Allem | The Conversation
Does it matter that people seem to have become more interested in suicide – expressing more suicidal thoughts, while becoming more likely to research ways to commit or prevent suicide – in the wake of the popular Netflix series “13 Reasons Why”?

According to new research my colleagues and I conducted, suicide-related Google searches increased in the weeks following the spring release of the popular Netflix series “13 Reasons Why.”

The show – which became the streaming service’s most discussed series on social media – chronicles a high school girl’s suicide over the course of 13