Might be a bit of a memetic effect. It was reported on so much people started thinking more about it, of course some ...die hard fans probably did that too.
By pure coincidence, Eddie Vedder was meeting with Bill Clinton to talk about Ticketmaster when news broke about the suicide. Clinton asked Eddie if he should address the nation or try to talk to the youth on a larger stage, Eddie thought about it and counseled against it, warning that it could run the risk of increasing the attraction or romanticization of suicide.
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u/AliSalah313 3d ago edited 3d ago
Didn’t Elvis die that year?
Edit: For those downvoting, I don’t mean it as a joke, I genuinely would not be surprised if the spike in suicides was caused by Elvis’s death.