These "copycat" suicides are proposed to be caused at least in part by exposure to another individual's suicide, for example through the imitation of suicidal behaviour.
Even beyond the strictly legal purport of Muhammad's example, the imitation of the Prophet has functioned as an important vehicle of ethical and spiritual growth for many Muslims across the centuries.
This makes it very difficult to convey, in a few examples, the precise nature of the imitation.
The best known natural example of such imitation was provided by a troop of macaques in Japan.
Newson was called to give oral evidence to the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee on Video Violence, where she asserted: "The Suzanne Capper case is another example of very explicit imitation of video and the use of video and that was Child's Play 3".
A good example of imitation of Possidius beyond Backus's own discussion of Reformation biographies is the tripartite "life, state and story" of the martyred Archbishop Thomas Cranmer contained in John Foxe's English Reformation classic, the Acts and Monuments, but in a rich variety of ways, the precedent provided by Possidius haunted the Reformation years.
Red carpet premiere of The Imitation Game.
Parts of The Imitation Game don't stack up.
The comparison is natural, indeed essential, in light of the massive amount of Greek artifacts, especially vases, that have been excavated in Etruria and the abundant examples of Etruscan imitations, of the pottery especially.
For example, using magneto-encephalography during the imitation of lip movements, Nishitani and Hari (2000) revealed a flow of information from components of the SN and the AON network over time [27].
However, the determining factors for speech imitation in Koshik may be social deprivation from conspecifics during an important period of bonding and development when humans were the only social contact available (this hypothesis may also hold for other known examples of speech imitation in mammals, Hoover the seal and the beluga Logosi, and also most talking birds [ 28 30]).
