Suicide Gains Greater Awareness as Major Cause of Death Among Youth
March 19th, 2010
While suicide is often thought of as a rare if regrettable occurrence, statistics have shown in the past few years that the issue is actually one of the leading causes of death within the United States, and is the second most prominent killer of people aged fifteen to twenty four. An editorial recently published by a prominent psychology specialist discusses the need for helping at-risk people and their families understand that assistance is available, even in the most seemingly dire of circumstances. Through promoting suicide hot lines and creating greater awareness of therapy, the specialist argues, suicide may retreat from the front lines of mental and emotional difficulties in the years to come.
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All lives are precious, more so of the younger people. To waste them by such an act is extremely disappointing. There need to be prevention programs in schools and colleges and the education system also needs an overhaul, because there are many who commit suicide due to their academic failures.
It is sad to see that a lot of youngsters are losing their lives, not to any ailment or accident but to choice! There can be nothing more disappointing because youngster are a huge asset to any nation/society and suicide rates need to be brought down.
So common among our young kids- I am shocked. I don’t know why but I always think of that time of my life as a happy time and I never even thought about ending my own life. What is going on in society that is driving the increase of these thoughts of young people today? Are they really that more depressed than anyof us were at that age? I always think that kids have it good but I guess that goes to show that you really don’t know what goes on behind closed doors and what so many of these youth are having to deal with at home or at school that get to be so much for them that the only way that they know how to deal with it is to end it.
Suicide is not just a person killing himself/herself but it is much deeper than that.It is about a person who has not been able to manage his/her life well and has run into something that he/she feels they cannot get out of…this needs more interospection and the reasons for so many youngsters committing suicide should be studied.
Ok so here’s the thing. Sometimes you don’t even realize that someone is at that point that they want to commit suicide because they have become very good at hiding their real feelings. My brother killed himself almost four years ago and HOnestly none of us in the family had no idea that he was going through all of the crap that he so obviously was dealing with. He just got so good at hiding that part of his life from the rest of the family that this all came as a big surprise to us. Now he did have friends who thought something might be going on but they did nothing to prevent it- what could they have done really if he was that determined to make it all go away? I think that suicide prevention efforts is a noble cause to be sure, but I am not sure that when someone makes their mind up to take their own life that anything can prevent it. I think that in the end they will find a way to make it happen.
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