Carmon Anna F
Division of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, Columbus, Indiana, USA.
Death Stud. 2022;46(4):940-948. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2020.1790061. Epub 2020 Jul 17.
The unfortunate increase of suicides in the modern era has provided a vast body of obituaries ripe for analysis. We analyzed 52 suicide loss obituaries retrieved from Legacy.com, an online obituary aggregator, to determine how they differ from what we know about traditional obituaries and suicide reporting. These suicide obituaries combined emotional appeals with educational components to address its social stigma. By doing this, authors personalized the public health issues related to suicide by sharing lived experiences, but by also encouraging open conversations about such a taboo topic.
现代社会自杀事件的不幸增加产生了大量可供分析的讣告。我们分析了从在线讣告聚合网站Legacy.com上检索到的52篇自杀身亡者讣告，以确定它们与我们所了解的传统讣告及自杀报道有何不同。这些自杀讣告将情感诉求与教育内容相结合，以消除自杀的社会污名。通过这样做，作者们通过分享亲身经历使与自杀相关的公共卫生问题个性化，同时也鼓励就这样一个禁忌话题展开公开讨论。
