"I am so sick of this life": A semiotic analysis of suicidal messages on the internet

Internet and Suicide

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-184

  Gilat, Itzhak ^a,b   Tobin, Yishai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b The Israeli Association for Emotional First Aid   (Israel)

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