A<unk>  is defined as a duplication or<unk>  of another suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on television and in other media. Sometimes this is known as a Werther effect, following the Werther novel of Goethe.
The well-known suicide serves as a model, in the absence of protective factors, for the next suicide. This is referred to as suicide contagion. They occasionally spread through a school system, through a community, or in terms of a celebrity suicide wave, nationally. This is called a suicide cluster. Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired suicide clusters include the American musician Kurt Cobain, the Japanese musician Hide and Yukiko Okada.
To prevent this type of suicide, it is customary in some countries for the media to discourage suicide reports except in special cases.
Copycat suicide
Suicide by cop
Internet suicide
Suicide pact
Teenage suicide
Night terror
Poison ivy
Forced suicide