In the years following the rise of the fascists to power in the Kingdom of Italy (1922), a significant portion of both local and national daily newspapers continued the widespread 19thcentury trend of regularly filling their columns with detailed reports on suicide cases. These reports, styled as short crime stories and reconstructions of the social and emotional backgrounds of the main protagonists, captured the interest of the public. Towards the end of the 1920s, as fascism became fully institutionalized and a totalitarian corporate state was established, the media began to reflect a stronger and more sophisticated fascist narrative. The term “suicide” became a target of politically imposed censorship as an unwanted element directly opposed to the Duce’s vision of demographic policy and the greatness of the Italian nation and spirit. Benito Mussolini clearly explained his views on this issue in the essay "The Doctrine of Fascism" (second part: “Political and Social Doctrine”)—a key political document of fascist philosophical thought, first published in 1932. In it, he emphasized that “The Fascist accepts and loves life; he rejects and despises suicide as cowardly. Life as he understands it means duty, elevation, conquest; life must be lofty and full, it must be lived for oneself but above all for others, both nearby and far off, present and future”. However, the topic of suicide did not completely disappear from newspaper columns; it was largely redirected as an instrument of subtle political messaging intended to show that such tragedies only occurred in other countries, particularly those with which fascist Italy had poor political relations. In this way, the topic of suicide became an object of fascist ideology.