The Wrong Way to Go Suicide is the cause of nearly “2000 deaths each day.” (CDC). There are many causes of suicide, but it can only ultimately lead to the one result, and that is death and destruction. While suicide is an impetuous decision, there are many help lines available that may aide in the prevention of it. Although it might be hard, and there are many complicating factors and warning signs that can lead to suicide, with extensive effort put in, suicide can sometimes be prevented, but not all suicide can be. There are always extenuating circumstances that make it impossible to prevent someone from taking their own life. One has to know the signs and accept outside help to assist others with this widespread epidemic. The determinant …show more content…
It can hit very close to home for some people, but to help the problem, suicide must be studied, spoken about, and dealt with. A recent study taken among students at Coleman High School resulted as such: out of 30 people asked, 28 personally knew or were somewhat in relation to someone who took their own life. The amount of lives affected by this shows just how important the awareness of suicide is. Although it is a tough topic to have a conversation about, it is not a subject that people should turn their heads away from. Scientists have continued to research the subject of suicide because of the horrible repercussions it can inflict on families and the people involved. Through numerous studies that scientists have conducted, insights to the causes and warning signs gives us ways to proactively try to prevent this type …show more content…
Taking one’s own life is never the way out or the way of dealing with a temporary problem that seems so overwhelming at in one’s time. There are always people who will help, and there are better solutions to get passed it. Genetics, gender, and life issues may seem stacked against a person, but there are always people who care or who have been in similar situations. Although it is a personal choice, and people heed the signs and take action to hinder suicide, sometimes it cannot be stopped. As much as another person tries to help a suicidal individual, at times, one’s mind is set on what they deem is the lone resolution. When this occurs, no one is at fault. Sometimes it is not just one impending factor or event that causes a person to contemplate suicide. The brain works in extremely complicated ways. “The hippocampus is the part of the brain that regulates memory and emotion. The size of this structure has been found to decrease in chronically depressed people. Brain cell communication is affected, serotonin production is reduced, and the rest of the body suffers.” (Dailyhealthpost). It is difficult to justify suicide, and it is also something a person cannot forcefully stop. The brain can get so depressed and mentally disturbed that it physically stops the production of what makes us happy, serotonin. When an individual has reached that low point and decides that the choice of taking their life is the answer to
According to an article written by Daniel Reidenberg, every year in America, there are over thirty-four thousand deaths due to suicide. Every thirty-eight seconds there is a person attempting to take their own life. Every fifteen minutes, someone succeeds in their attempt of suicide. Reidenberg mentions that in the last decade, the number of deaths by suicide has increased. He states that we, the people of America, need to take mental illnesses more seriously. They are just as bad as any other disease, just a disease that unfortunately lands in the brain and changes one’s “thoughts, feelings, and behavior.” Mental illnesses are a huge cause of suicide. According to a presentation made by Dr. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, the suicide rates in the Americas have increased by forty percent since 2000. Marsha Linehan preaches about how the suicide rates today are the highest they have ever been. Linehan, Dr. Vijayakumar and Reidenberg, despite being unable to predict the future of suicide rates, all know that without a change in the way we treat it,
There are many growing issues in our society, and suicide is one of the largest. Teens everywhere are finding reasons to end their life. The leading cause of suicide in America is a mental disease, next comes depression, and then the feeling
There have been many instances of suicide that have occurred in the past years at universities across the country, and since it is such a sensitive subject, there have not been nearly enough coverage as this topic deserves, considering this issue does not seem to be going away. When collecting data about suicide statistics, the age range is broken down as people ages 15-24, which spans most developmental years. Within this bracket are college-age students and this age-group has by far the most troubling statistics around it.
A mother finds her 17 year old teenage son hanging from the rafters of their basement. To hear of this occurrence is not rare in society today. Every 90 minutes a teenager in this country commits suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds. The National suicide rate has increased 78% between 1952 and 1992. The rate for 15-19 year olds rose from two per 100,000 to 12.9, more than 600 percent. (Special report, Killing the Pain, Rae Coulli)
Suicide is the eleventh most common cause of death in the United States. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a person takes their own life once every fourteen minutes in the United States (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP], 2011). Still, with suicide rates so high, suicide is a taboo topic in our society. Though suicide is intended to end one person’s pain, it causes an immeasurable amount of pain and suffering to loved ones close to the deceased.
Suicide is a sad story many people are reluctant to approach. But when somebody nearest to them kills themselves, they feel the compelling guilt of trying to understand the motive behind the death. It is a complex and rather devastating subject. Many who kill themselves can never come back to tell us what happened and why it did. Suicide takes an emotional toll on it's survivors and wreck havoc in the wake of the surrounding victims. What causes suicide is a probing series of many theories, and yet not one definitive answer. The prevention of suicide is also difficult to pinpoint, but only because the intent is unknown. The importance of researching the motives of the suicidal is essential to modern humanity as a whole, because in the era we live in, suicide rates are climbing faster than ever. Understanding the driving force behind suicide is what can help the field of social science to save the conscience mind of many people from self-destruction - and save their lives, and the emotions of their loved ones.
The suicide rate is at an all-time high .It is the same that it was in 1965. Most suicidal people can be saved, if a family member intervenes. There is not much we can do for those who are driven to take their own lives. Part of this sense may come from the way society views suicidal people. Researchers have long to find a reason why.
In our country, it seems that the act of suicide is a very subjectively moral taboo. I would say that based on most people’s upbringing (including my own) it has been engrained that ethically suicide is wrong. However, like many other ethical issues, they are typically morally relative. Based upon the examples used in the discussion prompt alone there are numerous examples of cultures and groups of people that believe that suicide is objectively moral. To be fair, I myself feel there are situations where suicide is warranted. For instance, I think physician-assisted suicide should be allowed and not punishable anywhere. As a matter of fact, according to Kevin Drum, as early as 1994 there were states jumping on board and allowing
“Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain” (I-10). Ending a life is a big step in the wrong direction for most. Suicide is the killing of oneself. Suicide happens every day, and everyday a family’s life is changed. Something needs to be done to raise awareness of that startling fact. Suicide is a much bigger problem than society will admit; the causes, methods, and prevention need to be discussed more openly.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15 to 24 year olds, and the sixth leading cause for 5 to 14 year olds. Suicide accounts for twelve percent of the mortality in the adolescent and young adult group. Young males are more common than young woman suicides. These are only children who followed through with the suicide. For every successful suicide there are fifty to one hundred adolescent suicide attempts. In other words, more than five percent of all teenagers tried to commit suicide, and the number is still rising. It is scary to think that four percent of high school students have made a suicide attempt within the previous twelve months. In a small safe town like Avon, in the Avon High School where you and I practically live, you can see the faces of 22 students that have tried to commit suicide. That is enough to fill a classroom.
To be brief, teen suicide is a major problem and should be taken seriously as it can be prevented. Adolescent suicide can be prevented if parents act as role models and teach effective ways to solve problems and cope with stress. Parents should also communicate openly with their teens about the problems in their lives. As has been mentioned, physical and emotional warning signs should be watched for as to indicate suicidal thoughts. In addition, adolescents who have psychological conditions or a substance abuse problem are at higher risks for suicidal tendencies. Furthermore, treatments for individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts are antidepressants or attending a group counseling session. All in all, suicide is a major factor especially among adolescents and needs to be addressed immediately. (“Teen Suicide” 6).
Now the eighth-leading cause of death overall in the U.S. and the third-leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 years, suicide has become the subject of much recent focus. U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher, for instance, recently announced his Call to Action to Prevent Suicide, 1999, an initiative intended to increase public awareness, promote intervention strategies, and enhance research. The media, too, has been paying very close attention to the subject of suicide, writing articles and books and running news stories. Suicide among our nation’s youth, a population very vulnerable to self-destructive emotions, has perhaps received the most discussion of late. Maybe this is because teenage suicide seems the most tragic—lives lost before they’ve even started. Yet, while all of this recent focus is good, it’s only the beginning. We cannot continue to lose so many lives unnecessarily.
There are many reasons that people consider suicide. They may be looking to block unbearable emotional pain, which causes a wide variety of problems. A person attempting suicide is often depressed that they are incapable of understanding their options. Suicidal thoughts develop frequently when a person believes they cannot cope with overwhelming life situations. A variety of factors contribute to the rising of deathly suicide in American, including mental illness and interactions with significant others.
Suicide has become a critical, national problem and the extent of this is mind-boggling. Suicides have been proven to be one of the leading causes of death among college students. According to Webters dictionary “suicide is the act killing oneself on purpose”. It derived from the Latin sui, meaning “self”, and caedere, which means “to kill”. But this is just a definition, because an actual suicide holds different meanings to people such as tragic, shocking, a relief, a cry for help, a shame, heroic, the right choice, punishment, revenge, protest, anger, a mistake, desperate, hurtful and many more. But why do people, like college students who have their entire future ahead of them, simply give up hope and turn their heads away from life and commit suicide. There are several causes of suicide, recent incidents of suicide on college campuses, warning signs from a suicidal. I blame the Constitution and the United States law for not taking any hard initiative on the subject of suicide. I also impose the choice of the media, which is reflecting and portraying suicide towards a wrong direction. However most important questions remain: can the growing epidemic of suicide be solved, what are communities doing about it and what can they do to help?
► Some are severely depressed over a long interval. To them, suicide may be a "permanent solution to a temporary problem." There is a consensus that a better solution for most clinically depressed people is treatment, using counseling and/or medication. Such treatment can give to the person decades of enjoyable life which would have been lost if they committed suicide.