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A suicide pact describes the Suicide s of two or more individuals in an agreed-upon plan. The plan may be to die together, or separately and closely timed. Suicide pacts are important concepts in the study of suicide, and have occurred throughout History , as well as in Fiction . Suicide pacts are generally distinct from Mass Suicide . The latter refers to incidents in which a larger number of people kill themselves together for the same ideological reason, often within a religious, political, military or paramilitary context. Suicide pacts, on the other hand, usually involve small groups of people (such as married or romantic partners, family members, or friends) whose motivations are intensely personal and individual. A suicide pact negotiated over the internet, often between complete strangers, is an Internet Suicide . NEW GROUP-SUICIDE METHOD: CHARCOAL :''Main article: Charcoal-burning Suicide Another focus of the media reports on group suicide pacts is a new and unique method of suicide that is being utilized in '', August 8 , 2005 Recent cases of internet-related suicide-by-charcoal pacts that have occurred outside of Japan — such as the February 2005 suicide of two young people in the United Kingdom , reported by the media as the UK’s "first online suicide pact" "UK records first online suicide pact" . ''The Age''. September 30 , 2005 . theage.com.au. Accessed 30 January 2007 . — have been directly influenced by media reports of similar incidents occurring in Japan. NOTES REFERENCES
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