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40. The Suicide Paradox

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The Papagano Effect

Kirt coban was found dead of an apparently self inflicted shotgun wound. mat ray: What this literature misses are all of the times that high profile suicides occur that don't spark contagion. The lowyer had off suicides in the wake of coban's death. They did not materialize.

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