The article describes the suicidal behavior of young people, indicating that for the last thirty years Russian young people from 15 to 25 years old have occupied in third place in deaths due to suicide. The article evaluates the virtual impact on the consciousness of young people in relation to suicides and suicidal behavior, examines the role of fi lms and TV series, music and comics, cartoons and books in relation to death and suicide. The article examines the types and motives of suicides and suicidal behavior within the framework of the approach of E. Durkheim and E. Shneidman and analyzes the psychological (internal) and social (external) conditions that push young people to suicidal behavior. The article studies death communities on the social network VKontakte, analyzing the hashtags (#Death, #Suicide, #Murder, #Revenge_death) and the examples of the quotes, as well as key semantic images that appear in the names of communities, texts, photos and videos of these communities, allowing young people to take root in their own loneliness, melancholy, sadness (personal internal motives) or the inability to stop bullying or cyberbullying (external conditions), which can also lead to depressive states that push young people to suicidal behavior. The results of the students` survey are presented, allowing to speak about mass awareness of the existence of death communities (attention to memes and other images and forms of satire on the Internet); watching fi lms about suicides and death; regularly listening to depressive music about death, which indicates a high level of readiness of student youth for suicidal behavior.