Talk:selficide

RFV discussion: October–November 2021
Rfv-sense: Accidental death that occurs while trying to take a selfie in a dangerous environment. DTLHS (talk) 18:47, 30 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Over the weekend, yet another person died by "selficide," the term used to describe deaths caused by trying to take the perfect selfie in a risky situation.
 * https://www.newsweek.com/selficide-selfie-death-1300851
 * It is an act of committing suicide willfully by posting videos of such act in social media or by precariously taking selfie's and accidentally., inadvertently succumbing to death.
 * https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/20096/selficide
 * A recent study documented 259 deaths worldwide caused by people taking selfies – dubbed “selficides” by the researchers – between October 2011 and November 2017.
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/nov/02/yosemite-couple-death-selfie-photography-travel-blog-taft-point
 * Selfie-related deaths -- sometimes called "selficides" or "killfies -- claimed a total of 259 lives worldwide between 2011 to 2017, according to a report by the Journal of Primary Medicine and Family Care.
 * https://www.aa.com.tr/en/life/selficides-snapshots-to-die-for/1583408

Spiros71 (talk) 06:03, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * How many of those are durably archived (see WT:CFI)? &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 11:01, 31 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Only the Guardian AFAICT.
 * It is likely that there will be a few based on the press release for the "study"/ Would they then be really independent? DCDuring (talk) 17:13, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 21:34, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2021 (UTC)