Imagine a grenade killing many people, something no one would ever want to happen. The grenade murdering a significant amount of family members. Destroying not only what they love, but what they ever had. A grenade detonates when no one knows and when no one wants it to, except for the detonator themselves, this can be compared to a member of a community committing suicide. Suicide prevention is an option everyone should look forward to, and be aware of. Bob Haxton agreed, “There should be way more of it. More efforts should be put towards learning students and their personalities, and watching their reaction towards talking to other people about this subject” (2017). It can be tough to see through a suicidal individual, which is why we must take care of one another. Although many people believe it may cost a lot of money, everyone should put more efforts towards suicide prevention because it will better society itself, create a healthier environment, and most importantly save many lives. It’s hard to know if someone is suicidal, or is in a serious situation. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, on average, there are “121 suicides per day,” …show more content…
Prevention can not only grow a community, but extend to a higher number of lives saved. Picture the grenade tearing a family apart from each other, losing not only their members, but themselves. If a child were to commit suicide after being bullied for many years, the parents may feel as if they have lost themselves in the catastrophe. Suicide will affect the family and the community, causing the society to bitter and shrink. Beneficially, prevention can stop this from happening. To thwart a member of a society from commitment will bring the lives of many to a halting state of relief and cheerful delight. Preventing this situation from happening will keep relationships from ending, and a healthier environment to live
Men die by suicide 3.5x more often than women, and on average, there are 121 suicides per day. (Suicide Statistics 1) Today when people lose their life from committing suicide, it is stated that 4:1 people have committed suicide in 2015. If someone is you know is trying to commit suicide there are three ways to help them being talking to them, care for them and ask for
Assisted Suicided Every 16.2 minutes, there are people in the world that take their own life by killing themselves.(Purity, 9) There are are over 40,000 people every year that commit suicide.(Purity, 10) Suicide is the leading cause of death for those of the age of 15-24 years old.(Purity, 13) However, coming up in the media through the last 20 years has been the idea of ending your life by assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is the practice of ending someone 's life.(Newton, 7) A terminal illness is when you have a disease that will end your life within the near future.
Though the reason why interventions are made is because with so many people dying from the same mortality factors as suicide by fire arm, suicide by suffocation, suicide by poisoning or addiction the nation decided to take a stand to help others that are in a tough position. For example, an addict goes to an intervention because he/she knows that his/her life is at risk and wants to make a change and by him/her going to the intervention he/ she is taking action upon himself/herself and then learns how to live a newer normal life preventing self-harm for the future. There is a whole lot of interventions that have been created for the past 20 years such as interventions for depression, interventions for alcohol abuse, interventions for suicidal ideation, interventions for survivors of sexual abuse etc.
In recent years California’s legislation has been debating over whether to have an assisted suicide bill (The Editorial Board, 2015, September). Oregon passed a bill back in 1997 allowing the assisted suicide (The Editorial Board, 2015, September). Now some lawmakers are urging others to agree and pass the act, sending the bill to the governor of California (The Editorial Board, 2015, September). California’s lawmakers have seen at least 4 bills come through their legislation like this one since 1995, about the same time Oregon was discussing theirs (The Editorial Board, 2015, September). For many people with terminally illness this gives them the right or freedom to “die with dignity” within their own home (The Editorial Board, 2015, September).
Everyday, people that suffer from mental illnesses, drive towards committing suicide. Suicide is growing at a disgustingly fast rate, but, if America restrains gun access, it could reduce suicide rates by over one third (washington post.) According to Washington Post, “... in the U.S. 50 percent of suicides are committed with guns.” Thousands of people are leaving their friends and families behind everyday with firearms, and we can stop this.
When suicide gets mentioned the first thing that usually comes to mind is someone who is very depressed ending their life. The thought of someone who is terminally ill wanting to commit suicide usually never crosses someone's mind because they are supposed to keep strong, to keep fighting their illness and stay alive. Jack Kevorkian was a physician who made a suicide machine specifically to help ill people who can't function normally to commit suicide, he helped around 130 people commit suicide. When people found out about jack kevorkian and what he was doing they were outraged, how could someone help another person end their life when you should help them have a life worth living? The people wanted him imprisoned and the people got what they wanted, he was sentenced 10-25 years in prison but was released after 8 years as long as he did not continue to assist in any suicides.
As of 2015, 5 in 100,000 girls and 14 in 100,000 teenagers commit suicide (Lewis). Teenagers are becoming more vulnerable and schools seem to be taking no notice. If these lives could be saved, it would help so many families across the united states. The National Institute of Mental Health states that there “are as many as 25 attempts of suicide to every one that is actually committed” (Eco Child’s Play). Suicides can be prevented by treatment of the illness.
We need to be aware of the consequences we are making not only to ourselves but to other people like our friends or family. There’s many opportunities in the world to still live by and there’s local services and programs to help out the teens, adults and even elderly people from suicide prevention. Life is tough and I know we all go to ups and downs, but we need to agree that suicide isn’t the answer to ending our lives and we need to change it. Young and elderly people commit suicide for different reasons and need different treatments.
Dying is not a person’s first choice of thinking. When people think of assisted suicide, they think it is wrong for a person to take their life. Some people think killing themselves is wrong because we were made to take care of our bodies and not harm it. Assisted suicide is necessary because a suffering person should not continue to suffer even though they know they will not make it in the end. Assisted suicide is necessary to some patients because it can make the pain go away when the patient knows they are going to die in the end, but there can be negatives to assisted suicide.
There are 175 countries in the world right now (Countries). The United States is ranked 48th in suicides. An alarming total of 44,193 people commits suicide here, each year (List). It’s daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and coworkers taking their life. It’s everyday people taking their life.
Introduction: What is the problem? Recently, news about suicide cases on telephone and newspaper appeared frequently. 22 cases were reported since the first academic year last September 2015. The number of cases reached the annual average cases in last five years.
Most of the children want it to end and they think that suicide is the answer. Bullying Suicide statistics show that 13% of students create a plan, 16% strongly consider, and 8% actual attempt. We are talking about students. These students are considering suicide. Their end of their lives because of bullies repeatedly harming them.
Over the years the issue of suicide has been slowly increasing. It is now the third leading cause of death among young people. The effects of suicide are tragic and felt long after the individual has taken their own life. Some people who consider suicide, however, never make a “serious” attempt at it. For every attempted suicide, there is said to be more than one person whose thought of suicide has never translated into an actual attempt.
Teenage suicide is definitely preventable when the right help is present. It can be recognized on the internet, gossiping, and phone callings. In almost all cases teenagers who bully others get some type of satisfaction in causing pain and injury to other teenagers. Being bullied should be an experience that no youth ever has to go through. Young teens who are being bullied try to seek out ways to cope with the pain and suffering.
The statistics about teenage runaways, alcoholism, drug problems, pregnancy, eating disorders, and suicide are startling. Every year, thousands of people succeed in taking their lives and even more have attempted suicide at some point in their lives. Although we have reached the stage that hearing about suicide is now common, it is was viewed as trivial and petty back then. It seems like a reverse spectrum