death creates death

morbid insight into our susceptibility to psychological suggestion. after mass homicidal or suicide articles are published, incidents of imitation or multiple deaths will be over 1000% as likely to occur within the areas that read these stories within 2-3 days of being published. its effects continue in decremental amounts over 2 weeks before returning to normal. further morbid irony, this applies to car and airplane crashes. yes, there is a 1000% increase of a fatal airplane crash over the next 2 weeks. that includes passengers. this phenomenon has been researched and validated over decades of data analysis.