S.O.S.: A Battle to End Suicide Around 40,000 people commit suicide in the United States alone each year. This immense amount of deaths has an effect on so many people: family, friends, and even acquaintances, and I am no exception. During my freshman year of high school, one of my closest friends and mentors committed suicide. This event sent me on an emotional roller coaster, and I still feel the hurt of this experience today. In a campaign to raise money for their non-profit organization, S.O.S., a suicide prevention and awareness group, utilized this hurt feeling that many experience with the loss of a loved one due to suicide. S.O.S. tries to appeal to the viewer through pathos, ethos, and kairos by using a quote, examples of people …show more content…
It also catches their attention, especially since a common reason for someone committing suicide is that they believe it will relieve them of their struggles in life. The viewer finds himself agreeing with this statement, as it appeals to his pathos, his beliefs and emotions. This quote intrigues the viewer and makes him want to continue watching as it deepens his reaction to the issue of suicide. The video gives examples of people who actually committed suicide to further impact the viewer. These people were ages twelve, eighteen, and thirty-two. The age selection used is important, and once again appeals to the pathos. The twelve-year-old adds shock-value to the video. Some viewers may not realize that suicide is not just limited to …show more content…
does a great job appealing to the pathos of the audience. They included so many elements that would appeal to the emotions and beliefs of people, whether they have experienced a suicide or not. They do this best through their images and examples. The use of kairos also works well in this video. Through the examples that the video provides, kairos links to pathos to create a more powerful message. I think that the element that they utilize the worst is the ethos. They do not seem very credible in the facts that they produce. If they could cite the sources that they got those facts from, these facts could be a great addition to their ad. Also, S.O.S. does not have a place to find out more about their organization. The website they give at the end of the video is practically useless. They have very little backing to their argument that people should donate money. A better source of information is necessary if this organization wants to gain any donations. Overall, I think that S.O.S. makes a decently persuasive video, but with some work, they could make it much more
Jazlyn Young April 8, 2018 Suicide in The United States Suicidal thoughts are the process of thinking about killing yourself and committing suicide. The individuals who experience suicidal thoughts do not always follow through, but there are enough individuals that do follow through to make this a social problem. The Centers for Disease Control, provide data on the prevalence of suicide within the United States. The data that is presented is from 2015. During this year, there were more suicides than homicides by almost double.
In a study released by Brown University, their psychology department shed some light on common myths and facts surrounded suicide. These m...
Suicide and the Predictions of Suicide In the first paper I read about hopelessness and eventual suicide, four authors studied 207 hospitalized patients with suicidal ideation. There was a follow up period of 5-10 years when these patients were systematically checked up on to see their status. Fourteen eventually completed suicide within the follow up period. In the study the researchers used the Beck Depression Inventory, the Hopelessness Scale, and the Scale of Suicidal Ideation.
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)
and causes suicide can be prevented. Suicide is an intentional attempt to kill oneself whether it is
Suicide is arguably one of the most major controversies. Suicide is the act of taking one’s own life as a result of a psychiatric disorder that sometimes is brought on with certain life threatening illnesses, stress, genetics, or other influences like physical or emotional abuse. There are many conditions that are known for having suicidal thoughts and ideation as a side effect; major depression, manic depression, or bipolar disorder, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, and many more. Most suicidal individuals want to avoid emotional or physical pain by killing themselves to escape the pain they can’t bear and solve their insoluble problem. Sometimes, suicide is also done out of anger. Suicide may not be the answer to their problems, but sometimes suicide is the only way to escape.
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.
The American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a non-profit organization that acknowledges suicide and mental health problems that are part of our society. By understanding this support can go to those in need of education and those who are at risk. Suicide affects a tremendous amount of people those who suffer from depression and their love ones, but with proper education and treatment it can prevent many from committing suicide. In fact according to Mental Health Business Week “Each year in the United States, suicide claims over 40,000 lives - more than war, murder, and natural disasters combined…Suicide is not just a faceless health issue for our society - it affects real people” (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 60). Therefore organizations like The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention were established to assist. The AFSP was founded in 1987, which is one of the leaders in fighting against suicide by offering research, education, and supports to those individuals and their families that are affected by suicide.
Some survivors aren’t about to accept the readjustment of the sudden lost and coupled with the suffering experience through grief can find suicide as they only solution. The theme of the loss of a loved can cause the survivor the commit suicide is seen in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but isn’t shown as expected. Suicide in today’s society impacts the United States both financially and socially with heavy costs in medical bills and destroy relationships between the surviving member and the deceased loved one. The grieving process is a path where one can find themselves with their wounds healed or as an emotional crippled individual at the edge of their
Psychologist Lisa Firestone had come to a conclusion that the main driving factor behind suicide and suicide attempts was an inner voice which disconnected the individual from the real world and from selflessness. The voice centers around the ego and weakens the conscience of the individual, leading them to believe they are unworthy of living and undeserving of human love. She believes that human beings who have suicidal attempts do not do it out of their own accor...
Suicide AwarenessVoices of Education (SAVE) proclaims, “When a person faces his grief, allows his feelings to come, speaks of his grief...it is then that the focus is to move from death and dying and to promote...
...have shown more clearly when suicide is best for us. The future possibilities are reserved only for those who live but not for those who die.
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“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 every day a family’s life changes. Something needs to be done to raise awareness of that startling fact.
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.