In the novel, How to Kill a Rock Star, by Tiffanie DeBartolo, an exchange between two
characters on the topic of suicide happens that is both poignant and gut-wrenching.
“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”
One of my favorite aunts committed suicide. Aunt Pat was a veterinarian in the West
and raised three sons with my Uncle Jim, my father’s youngest brother. She was an
educated professional woman and a wife and mother. She drove out to the desert in
her car and ended her life by her own hand. The tragedy of course is that when she
killed herself this reverberated throughout the lives of those
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The focus of M.A.D. – H.O.P.E is to prevent youth suicide.
Their website can be found at the following link:
http://promise.bellinghamschools.org/2016/02/05/m-a- d-h- o-p- e-making- a-difference-
helping-other- people-everywhere- youth-suicide- prevention-project/
The second step is harder, but it can be done. Talk about suicide with a teenager or
young adult whom you think is struggling emotionally and has openly discussed her
(his) plans to end her life (his life). The biggest myth about suicide is that we should
never ask a person for details, but that is not true. Ninety-five percent of those people
who reach out to a friend or family member can be saved by intervention. This means
do not be afraid to ask the tough questions or to contact a behavioral health specialist
for advice. Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher said, “Suicide is our most
preventable form of death.”
The third step is also helpful. Contact Kasandra Church, she is the Prevention Coalition
Coordinator with WFCN, and is a very involved proponent of M.A.D. – H.O.P.E.
KaSandra also teaches suicide prevention workshops throughout the year to young
people and to adults in the community, as well as to medical and behavioral
helped support the struggling couple. They divorced in 1942. She lived in Carmel Valley, CA after and died February 8, 1983.
orphanage and went on a long journey where she met many people that were like her, in
The main argument in this article is that there needs to be more ways to help people that are suicidal. The main point of this article is that they want to people to be more aware of how to help someone, and it is also full of information. The topics that are covered in the article are the issues at hand, the background with suicide in teens, and the next step that society needs to take. This article is about helping people that are suicidal and how to help them and let us know the next step that we need to take.
She later became a secretary for the cannery that she worked at. She eventually got
professional help or speak to someone in your circle such as friends and family because that
When Mom was about ten Clyde abandoned his family, and she and her mother moved in with Maude's sister in the Port Fulton neighborhood of Jeffersonville. My Unc and Aunt Smith became Mom's surrogate parents, and she lived with them until she married. A few years later Maude was institutionalized at Craigmont, where she lived for the rest of her life. There is a third marker on the cemetery lot where Mom and Dad are buried for our Grandmother Maude Johnson.
impulsive decision to commit suicide let to the unfortunate and tragic end of the story.
consequences. Born into a hell-hole with no positive role models around her, her tragic fate was
She was a Quaker. The wife of a merchant. The infertility patient of Dr. William Pancoast. She was a woman whose name was never recorded.
She was known to be a shy, but found her calling of helping others when her brother got into an accident when she was a little girl. Her family encouraged her she would be an excellent teacher because she was very patient. Following her families advice at fifteen years old she decided to open her own school that was free to all who attended. (McHugh, 2015, p. 3). She was very successful as the community saw her passion to make a difference and the increased in students attending and decided to provide four thousand dollars to build a new school and when it opened they replaced her with a man and paid him double the salary. She resigned as a teacher and continued her journey as she moved to D.C. where she became the first women to work in the U.S. patent office and to earn an equal amount as a man (Cooperstein, 2012, p.
Francie Nolan was raised her whole life poor and was raised in Brooklyn New York during 1943. She
had to carry on working the family farm by herself. With the death of his
were Amy Otis and Edwin Earhart and had a sister named Muriel. Her mother was of high class
Teen Suicide is a major killer of teenagers today. It is the third leading cause of death in all teens’ ages 15-19 and the second leading cause of death in ages 19-24. Verbalizing about this more gives ways to help prevent teen suicide, such as identifying disorders they may have and providing them with the proper treatment be fore it gets out of hand. The hard part is identifying the disorders. The only people that can really identify them is family and close friends, and in many cases people many not know the seriousness of it or fear that it might just be true. Another problem is that if you are not educated in the areas of mind it may be a bit harder to identify the problem. The most common symptoms that lead to suicide are depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse. Depression is a mood disorder characterized by over whelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and often times excessive guilt or feelings of worthlessness. Depression is not something that a person can help and if they could, they would not even want to. It does no good to tell someone who is depressed and has thoughts of suicide that,” Things really are not that bad”; that just indicates to them that you can not see nor understand what they are going through. Most people in these situations want help but they may discourage obtaining it from someone due to the embarrassment of the issue. Making sure that your friends and family are all right but if they are not, they should be shown what help they can acquire by just coming forward. Anxiety disorders are a bit more complex but they need to be identified cause they can be dangerous. Anxiety is a disorder where anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety motivates abnormal behavior and can not function in everyday life because the anxiety is too great. The easiest of the three to explain is Substance abuse. This is the pattern of drug use that diminishes the ability to fulfill responsibilities at home or at work or even school, that leads in repeated use of drug menacing situations, which results to legal difficulties related to narcotic use. Ultimately chronic abuse of alcohol and drugs may lead to death; About 100,000 Americans die each year as a result of alcohol with other drugs including heart failure, pneumonia, automobile accidents, and suicide.
suicide was based on a lie-she lied to get the poison and lied to her