Sometimes people kill themselves in cities other than where they live. While it is clear that the overwhelming majority of suicides in any location occur among residents of the area (and this should not be lost in the attention to this “tourist” concept), there seem to be suicides in which the person traveled to some location (for reasons which we can only conjecture). This small minority of suicides do occur. The article below is from New York magazine and discusses the concept in New York City.

http://nymag.com/news/features/46811/