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Ban the sale of clothing trivialising suicide with distressing slogans or images

Submitted on Thursday 28th January 2016

Published on Friday 5th February 2016

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 5th August 2016

Signatures: 28

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Ban the sale of clothing trivialising suicide with distressing slogans or images

Petition Details

Amazon are offering t-shirts "making fun" of suicide with a variety of distressing slogans and images. About 6,000 people end their lives by suicide every year. The images are extremely distressing for people touched by suicide and they could provide a trigger for more suicides.

Additional Information

Suicide is the largest cause of death for men under 45. The t-shirts, some aimed at children, have images of people hanging, the most common form of suicide.
Slogans include "Death is Gods way of saying you're fired. Suicide is humans way of saying I quit".
"Yesterday my brother committed suicide. Should I kill myself?".
"I ❤️ Suicide". We would never tolerate a slogan "I ❤️ Cancer".
While the stigma remains for mental health we need to protect vulnerable people from seeing images like these.


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