by Ben Pike
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As father of three Chris Turton watched The Gloaming on TV he started shouting at the screen "somebody help her".
Mr Turton found his 17-year-old boy, who had used the same method depicted in the Stan program.
Daniel died in Northern Beaches Hospital a week later.
"It certainly wasn't evident as we started watching the program that suicide was going to be involved and be so, so graphic," Mr Turton, 55, told The Sunday Telegraph.
"Anybody who has been touched by suicide, either first-hand or otherwise, is very sensitive to those kind of triggers.