Live television suicide

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Live television suicides are instances where an act of suicide is broadcast during a live programme. Such incidents are extremely rare in television broadcasting. Nevertheless, every such incident attracts widespread public attention and becomes the subject of fierce debate regarding journalistic ethics, the psychological impact on viewers and the risk of copycat behaviour. In response to such incidents, the television industry has developed both technical preventive measures (such as signal delay) and professional conventions restricting the broadcast of graphic scenes of death. In the modern era, the problem has shifted to the internet, to streaming platforms and social media, where users occasionally broadcast suicides in real time.

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