The Google Trends Suicide Watch

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 07/14/2009 - 06:17

Jeremy Wagstaff has done a fascinating (if morbid) little analysis using Google Trends to track the popularity of the search phrase "commit suicide painlessly." Perhaps not too surprisingly, it appears to track the economy.

That is, it was relatively flat for a while, but spiked in October 2008 through March 2009 -- though, it's since come back down.

As he notes, this isn't exactly a small blip -- it was over an extended period of time. He digs down...

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