Abstract
Suicide is something that occurs everywhere, even though is shouldn’t, however hard we try, there is no way we can possibly eliminate all suicide chances, but we can try to see what there is to prevent it from happening.
The objective of this paper is to focus on the description of suicide, to discuss the trends related to it, and to investigate some methods for suicide prevention. We will discuss some relevant theories related to suicide and suicide prevention include the Psychological model, Integrated Model and Stress Vulnerability Model, which are further mentioned in this paper. There is a profusion of factors related to this phenomenon, with the inclusion of risk factors, protective factors and warning signs. The ones who are
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If there are any significant loses in a person’s life, such as the death of a pet, a sibling, a parent or a grandparent, they may choose suicide as a way to escape the grief. Also, in some cases, if someone has bad relationship with their peers, or is a victim of bullying, may also end up taking his/her life.
For some patients, who have been undergoing surgeries due to some illness, may take up their lives to end their pain and suffering. They may feel that the pain will end once they go away, but little do they know that this affects a lot of people behind them.
The ones who are usually more susceptible to this issue are young adults, who undergo a lot of stress in their school or academic areas, also those who are working may face a lot of tension from work, then end up committing suicide as an alternative to solve their problems. Sometimes in the society, there is a lot of pressure on how you look, or what your social status is, or how educated you are. In some parts of the world, such as India, where men are considered more valuable than women, we may see a lot of women opting for suicide as a solution to escape this injustice, or sometimes even domestic
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We can see that the largest age group to commit suicide is elderly, this may be due to the fact that they feel lonely and isolated, when having to live alone after their children start working or get married.
Application
There is a lot that can be done by different groups of people to facilitate adjustment or prevention of suicide attempts. Like they say, prevention is better than cure. The reason being that once someone makes an attempt to commit suicide, they are most likely to go back to doing it again even have you stop them once, but if we are able to prevent that from happening, then it’s already a good start.
Another way is intervention, which is when someone stops someone in between their attempt at committing suicide. Through research, I found that victims that were stopped from ending their lives appeared to be very grateful later on, this is probably because they feel that someone cares and might think twice before ending their lives.
Lastly, postvention – this occurs after someone commits suicide, especially when you offer help or support to the beloved ones of the deceased. This is to reduce the chances of more suicides or similar activities happening again in the family, as well as to offer some help to them (Nortan,
(CWLA). There are so many reasons behind suicide, the most common being depression. The United States has the highest death rate out of all the countries in the
“The virus starts and stops with you”(Taylor 89). Suicide is a virus. it's a virus that continues spreading and it affects everyone, not just the person who got sick. it affects the family and affects the community it affects everyone personally involved with the person who killed themselves. For example, if there was a group of friends and one of the said friends killed themselves the whole group would feel the lasting impact of their death whether it be emotional physical, or mental to the point where maybe that was the last straw for one of the other friends and it leads them to kill themselves, therefore, affecting the whole group once again.
Keiski acknowledges that, “Individual therapy with a psychologist or psychiatrist is probably the most common form of treatment for people suffering from any sort of depression or need help through a crisis.” (95). In most cases, suicide is a result of how lonely the victim may feel since they may not fully receive the love and care they deserve. Hence, it is important that professional caretakers reach out to them since they may feel too embarrassed of their negative thoughts. Directly connecting to this idea, most times family members and friends are not too sure about how to address this with the victim since they do not really know how to help.
People who committed suicide were in a state of immense despair; they could not see hope and find the courage to go on. They wanted to end their pain. At the same time, they might not realize that they were also being selfish.
Lack of communication increases suicide rates because People aren't truly happy with themselves nor the world. People have no idea of their history Or even the world history. The Government could be the cause of this. While outlawing books And brainwashing almost everyone Making them think that their television sets and their seashells are all the have in life.
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.
Losing a loved one is very difficult to handle throughout your life. Have you ever felt like giving up on life as well because your other behalf or your loved one passed away due to suicide and not being able to see them again until the afterlife? Suicide is the act of ending your own death at your own hand to escape the pain or suffering from the world. It should be meant to enjoy life like everyone else and not taking your own life just by the opinion of others or by the disaster of the world or by any body failure you might be experiencing. Accordingly, to the organization of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, suicide becomes the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S.
This needs to change. If we open our hearts and comprehend our thoughts, we can help lower the number of lives that suicide takes. No matter what the reason, people are taking it into their own hands to choose when their life should end. We have to take the actions stop it. The actions may be small, but starting to recognize the severity of suicide is a start.
So, what are the main causes that makes people commit suicide? The first important cause is psychological problems, there are two main reasons for psychological problems, the first one is, depression. It’s one of the most common problems in the world that can happen at any age. Did you know that according to the world health organization, the United states is one of the most depressed countries in the world.
According to International Suicide Statistic, over one million people die by suicide worldwide each year. The global suicide rate is 16 per 100,000 population. On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world. Global suicide rates have increased 60% in the past 45 years. It seems that the characters found that the simplest and best way of avoiding life struggles is through suicide.
Suicide is a problem because, per above mentioned, it happens no matter in a primitive, an industrialized, or a modern society of science and technology. It is certain that suicide appears consistently. Besides the huge numbers of suicide cases annually and globally, there are many suicide attempts for each death and unreported cases in some countries. The negative influence is not only on individuals, but on their families, friends, and community (school/work, religious network). The impact is also devastating and far-reaching to the society.
During the years of university, students are overloaded with assignments, projects, presentations, quizzes and exams. These works and exams can create a lot of stress and pressures for university students who are expected to perform excellently in classes. Suicide is the tragic result students choose after facing these incidents. According to Emory Cares 4 U, “Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among people aged 25 to 34 and the third-leading cause of death among people aged 15 to 24” (Emory University, 2016). The causes of suicide in university students are academic and social pressure, inadequate coping skills with university works and feeling of failure or decreased performance.
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.
Suicide is a dominant cause of death among teenagers and young adults. The rate of suicides and suicide attempts increases from time to time. For some, suicide is the permanent solution to a temporary problem and most pressing public health issues across the world. Suicides case is so often these days even becoming a trend and we are not even flinch anymore. The depression and substances abuse for teenagers currently become issues that lead to suicide cases among teenagers.
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