Three suicides took place at Edison preparatory school. Suicide contagion is when one suicide influences others. It is thought that the suicide of one teenage boy at this school influenced the few others, as they may have had a pact that lead to the other suicides. What may happen as we can see is that students who are already suicidal and having these thoughts might need to see someone else do it to be influenced to do it to themselves. Even, sometimes kids will see the attention that a suicide gains and crave it leading their own suicide. It has happened in other cities and high schools across the United States but also in larger scales. It has been proven that when suicide is portrayed and talked about in newspapers or on the news, the suicide rate rises. 

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