Copycat suicide
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In suicidology, a copycat suicide is defined as an emulation of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the origi
Wilhelm Amberg, Reading from Goethe's Werther
Werther and Lotte, from The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Yukiko Okada
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Kayo Satō, known professionally as Yukiko Okada, was a Japanese singer and actress, active in the mid-1980s. After winning a nationwide television show at age 15 in 1983, she debuted as an idol in 198
Copycat suicide
…from reporting on cases of suicide. Examples of celebrities whose suicides have triggered suicide clusters include Ruan Lingyu, the Japanese musicians Yukiko Okada and hide, the South Korean actress Choi Jin-Sil, whose suicide caused suicide rates to rise by 162.3%, the Filipino actress Stella Strada and Marilyn…
Yukiko Okada in 1984
The Sun Music Building, located in Yotsuya, Tokyo