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by ieze 4901 days ago
It's well meaning.

"Hearing about a suicide seems to make those who are vulnerable feel they have permission to do it" -- David Phillips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

Unfortunately http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/16e15s/i_transcribed_... was posted and front-paged yesterday.

Google returns a local suicide prevention line number when you google suicide. Perhaps social media sites should discourage posting on the subject at the time of submission, or trying to wrap such content with reminder to the readership that they matter.