cybersuicide

Read an interesting article about suicide pacts today. Apparently in October, 2 seperate groups of Japanese people met on the internet and decided to kill themselves. Analysts are worried that people are going to copycat, and have coined the phenomenon "cybersuicide." Apparently this trend is divergant from traditional suicide pacts because normally suicide pacts involve people that have solid relationships, (sick enough, the most common relationship for this is a spousal relationship) while those in Japan were strangers who'd met over the internet. The British Medical Journal published an interesting article detailing all the different kinds of suicide pacts and in turn warns psychiatrists to look out for people at risk. They also have an article entitled "Can Country Music Drive You to Suicide?" To which I answer: duh!