Media gets the focus wrong on suicide

THE final article (Irish Examiner, September 7) of your mammoth series on suicide, spread over three pages on three successive days, examined “the link between media coverage and suicide.”

It focused on how the reporting of particular suicides has the potential to prompt people to think of suicide as an attractive way out of difficulties, and then to choose it.

I suggest that another kind of reporting is more powerful in that regard when it propagates the notion that many are choosing that ‘way out’.