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We must avoid the Werther effect (see the famous case of Marilyn Monroe's suicide) and instead assisted suicide and euthanasia are promoted

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Today, 10 September, World Suicide Prevention Day is celebrated.
Pro Vita Onlus has released a press release in which the president Toni Brandi notes: «It is a hypocritical celebration, if at the same time assisted suicide and euthanasia are celebrated and promoted through living wills, o That, o “advance treatment orders” whatever you want to say".
«The legalization of euthanasia – in the form of assisted suicide through a living will – leads to a worrying increase in suicides in general", he adds.
«Common sense would be enough to understand it, but the thing is also supported, for example, from data collected in Oregon", where assisted suicide was legalized at the end of 1997: already in 2000, the suicide rate “conventional” had increased significantly. In the 2007, was from 35% higher than the national average; In the 2014, was from 43.1% higher than the national average.
Everyone knows that suicide is contagious (cd. “effetto Werther”). The World Health Organization has published guidelines for media reporting on suicides: to prevent the Werther effect, they do not have to describe the method of suicide in detail, must not use dramatic/graphic titles or images and must not “sensationalize” death.
«Just think of the media hype surrounding the death of poor DJ Fabo: they made a real show out of it, exactly the opposite of the WHO recommendations", Brandi continues.
And he concludes by wondering: «From Istat data it appears that between 1995 and the 2015 the number of suicides in Italy has been decreasing: we will maintain this positive trend now that euthanasia has been legalized, with the Data Law?».
Note from BastaBugie: Alex Schandenberg in the following article entitled “Assisted suicide: legalization is incitement” talks about the Werther effect in the famous case of Marilyn Monroe's suicide and the official health reports of the US state of Oregon.
Here is the complete article published on Provita News on 27 August 2018:
The legalization of euthanasia – in the form of assisted suicide – leads to a worrying increase in suicide in general. Common sense would be enough to understand this, but this is also supported by data collected in Oregon.
And it is consistent with the fact, always recognized by psychiatry, that suicide is contagious (cd. “effetto Werther”). A famous example was in the days of Marilyn Monroe, whose suicide sparked a series of disturbing emulations. So much so that the Canadian National Institute of Mental Health and the World Health Organization have developed “guidelines for responsible reporting” by the media talking about suicide, to prevent the Werther effect (do not describe the method of suicide in detail, do not use dramatic/graphic or non-dramatic titles or images “sensationalize” death).
In Oregon, the assisted suicide of Lovelle Svart and Brittany Maynard were covered by the media in exactly the opposite way to the above recommendations. So much so that Dr. Will Johnston had to treat a twenty-year-old patient, physically healthy, which it is “identified” with Brittany Maynard and wanted to die like her. He then searched the internet for drugs suitable for committing suicide. The mother noticed, she managed to take him to the doctor and it took five weeks of hospitalization to cure him of his self-harm instinct.
According to official health reports, taking into account that Oregon has legalized assisted suicide “at the end of 1997”, already in 2000, the suicide rate “conventional” was "significantly increasing". In the 2007, was from 35% higher than the national average; In the 2010, was from 41% higher than the national average; In the 2012, was from 42% higher than the national average; In the 2014, of the 43.1% higher than the national average.
The report of 2012 described the cost of suicide as “huge”: «Suicide is the second leading cause of death among Oregonians aged 15 no 34 years and the eighth cause of death among all ages. The cost of suicide is enormous. Only in 2012, Hospitalization costs for self-inflicted injuries in Oregon have surpassed 54 million dollars; and the estimated total cost of suicide is more than that 677 million dollars".