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吃瓜不打烊es On Suicide Jumped Nearly 20 Percent Following Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' Debut

With controversy around how the show depicted suicide swirling, scientists wanted to find out if the series actually did affect teens watching it.

Suicide-related searches on Google jumped significantly after the release of the show聽13 Reasons Why,聽according to a report published Monday in聽JAMA Internal Medicine. The聽show, which premiered in March on Netflix, follows the fictional story of Hannah Baker, a teenager who commits suicide and leaves behind 13 tapes detailing why she decided to end her life. (Toy, 7/31)

鈥淥ur analyses suggest 13 Reasons Why, in its present form, has both increased suicidal awareness while unintentionally increasing suicidal ideation,鈥 the authors wrote. 鈥淭he most rising queries focused on suicidal ideation. For instance, 鈥榟ow to commit suicide鈥, 鈥榗ommit suicide鈥 and 鈥榟ow to kill yourself鈥 were all significantly higher.鈥澛燨verall, suicide queries were 19 percent higher in the 19 days following the series鈥 release, 鈥渞eflecting 900,000 to 1.5 million more searches than expected,鈥 the paper reported. (Murgia, 7/31)

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