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RE: Anthony Bourdain, Dead At 61: "Commited" Suicide or "Death By" Suicide?

in #life6 years ago

Another helpful number to keep in mind is 741741 -- this is Crisis Text Line, and you can text this number if in crisis. It is cost free.

I work with this subject and there are best practices when it comes to reporting on suicide. It is not appropriate to report that someone "committed" suicide. There are many other nuances to carefully reporting on suicide. Our company recently presented at a Stanford event based around this topic. That is one of the basic principles that most reporters now understand (death by instead of committed).

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I've seen the documents about those best practices since this incident.