13 Reasons People Attempt Suicide By Mr. Alex Lickerman

Suicide is a waste of time. It’s stupid. There’s no point because you don’t gain anything from it because you’re dead. However, people don’t see this and they do this without thinking about what they already have. It’s mostly the teens that jump into the arms of death, and this is usually because of peer pressure, grades, suffering from loss, anxiety, etc. One novel show an example of a realistic stressed individual. And even though this is a fictional story, the character’s situation is similar to many young human beings on Earth. The novel is called The Catcher in The Rye, a first person narrative written by J.D. Salinger. The stressed individual’s name is Holden Caulfield. He is the main character who

There is at least 113 suicides each day or 1 every 13 minutes. Suicide among males is the seventh leading cause of death and the fourteenth leading cause in females. Most suicides are with a firearm and are carried out with a “ Saturday night special”. (Dilaura,Cynthia DiLaura) “More than 90 percent of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal. “ (Brady Campaign) There are a number of reasons why suicide occurs. Stress is the number one cause among our youth, bullies, peer pressure, depression, and abuse. 41,100 people committed suicide in the United States in 2013. Our young teens today does not take time to look deeper into there problem and to seek out a better solution. They are looking for a quick fix but not realizing once the trigger is pulled the result is final with no turning back. Most people who has attempted suicide is more likely to try a second attempt and most have an underlying mental illness. There is many warming that someone may be in a suicide crisis. We most learn how to see things through their eyes. No matter what one is facing in life or the difficult that lie ahead of them Nothing is worth taken your own

Many human deaths are caused by depression, depression can be described by feeling sad, unhappy, or miserable. Research has shown that 90 percent of people who kill themselves suffered from depression, or another diagnosable mental or substance abuse disorder that leads them to this horrible tragedy called suicide (Wilson). Depression can lead to suicide if its not being treated, in the worst case. A harmful life event or events can lead to be a cause of a suicide attempt. If your wife died and you feel like you ca not deal with it, you drown yourself into drugs and drinking, you are left alone your children are now adults and are gone away somewhere married and they can not come with you. So you continue to drown yourself, until you do not have any more money and you go homeless, you then think and start talking to yourself

The main character of the novel Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah Baker, committed suicide because of thirteen “reasons” that she divulged in a set of audiotapes. These reasons were people who either bullied her in some cruel way, or just ignored the fact that Hannah needed help. Whatever their crime against Hannah, each of these people affected her identity. Most of them negatively, but not all.

There are many reasons for suicide. Up to 90-95% of suicides are caused by a previous mental illness within the family, usually depression. Depression is a sadness that impacts the physical and mental health. Depression is usually the cause of suicide. Depression is caused by many things like serious illnesses, such as depression and bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder causes major mood swings – from highs to lows. Major changes in your physical and mental

Suicide is is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors include mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, alcoholism, or drug abuse. People choose suicide when they are hopeless or when they think there isn’t anyone that cares for them anymore. They can also choose this if they think there isn’t an end to their suffering or to their problem. Most of the time this happens because of depression and in some cases bullying, it can also happen because of alcohol or because of a major stressful event that has happened. Suicide can really happen anywhere and at any time.Suicide is a problem that exists because the numbers of suicide keep going up and won’t come down.

Death is something one cannot escape, whether it be natural or self inflicted death is inevitable. Suicide is the second leading causes of death for ages 10-24. Young adults are faced with challenges that become too much to bare; they begin to feel as if there is no other option but suicide. In today's society, young adults lack the knowledge and experience to deal with difficult circumstances that will later lead to severe consequences. When children are not informed through; involvement, witnessing it, seeing it in movies or in this instance even reading about it, they don't know what to do when it happens to them. When children have this resource taken away or banned from schools they won't fully know how real these events are. In Jay Asher's novel, Thirteen Reasons Why, these harsh circumstances are so pertinent in high schoolers lives that banning this book deprives students of the vital lessons they may need to face reality.

We often don’t know what to do or say about suicide, especially when it pertains to someone we are close to. Even as personal as the subject is, we must talk about what suicide is and how it affects people lives. Though the issue is suicide is often misrepresented and portrayed unsuitably in the media, causing our society to have a misleading idea on the matter.   For instance in late March of 2017, Netflix released its original series, 13 Reasons Why, which caused an uproar among young viewer’s parents and other adults.

Life is a beautiful thing, you experience things, both good and bad; that ultimately shape you into the person you are, until the day you die. But “for young people 15-24 years old, suicide is the second leading cause of death.” (SAVE.org). And sadly Hannah Baker from the fictional world of Thirteen Reasons Why, is no exception. In the text, Thirteen Reasons Why, written by Jay Asher, one goes through the final deciding moments of Hannah Baker’s life, through a classmate named Clay.

In the compelling young adult fiction 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, you learn about a suicide committed by a 16 year old high schooler who lives in Cresmont, California, named Hannah Baker. Hannah is really having a hard time just due to gossip, assaults, non trusting friends, and other issues caused by her classmates during her few years there. She decides to commit suicide, but before she does so, she makes a set of tapes that tells about the 13 reasons why she’s going to kill herself. With these tapes she mails them to each person that was apart of why she committed suicide. They then have to mail them to the next person apart and so on.

Why would an author like Jay Asher write a novel about a young girl, who has committed suicide? Well, adults and young adults are committing suicide every day. Right now, there could be a suicide case going on. The reason why these people are committing suicide is because they cannot handle what others are saying and doing to those people. Not everyone could handle what others are doing and saying to the. Bullies are a cause of suicide. If you are bullying and, or messing with a person, you never know if they would commit suicide or not.

Have you ever known someone who’s committed or tried to commit suicide and thought, “I wish I would’ve done something, said something, to stop it from happening?” I know I would ask myself that question everyday if I hadn’t. A few years ago, a good friend of mine thought her life was so bad she wanted to end it. I did the only thing I could think, and told the nearest teacher. It may sound so childish or stupid, but it worked. Luckily, she’s still alive and well. I’m here to make sure you can make the difference and help a person who might be, or is suicidal. Just think of what would happen if you didn’t try to help.

Thirteen Reasons Why narrates the story of Clay Jensen, a typical high school student, who unexpectedly receives a strange and mysterious box containing 13 cassette tapes that reveals 13 people, including him, who are said to be the reasons why his classmate, Hannah Baker, committed suicide weeks earlier. The book was written by Jay Asher, an American contemporary writer. The book embodied a simple but unique plot, a realistic and relatable theme, and a writing style that is paradoxically deep but easy to relate.

The 13 reasons are 13 different kids, and each one reportedly bullied her. Hannah baker focused on getting revenge on these kids by making them listen to her voice after she already committed suicide. Revenge is never the answer and using suicide to glorify that is unnecessary and disrespectful. It tells the target audience, of young teenagers, that suicide is a good revenge method and dying out of suffering from bullying is an answer. It's not. Suicide is no joke and what this show did by giving a scapegoat for children will not only raise the percentages of suicide in young teens but make out to give satisfaction for a successful suicide. These kids need mental help, not a TV show showing that suicide is the only thing that correlates with

Out of the six causes of depression listed above, Hannah suffered four. Some boys spread lies about what she did with them, others grabbed at her body, girls weren't kind, teachers didn't make it easier, her parents were always working because they were going through a financial problem, and let’s not forget moving and leaving her life behind. On top of all those problems we have the pressure of being in high school. At one point of Hannah's life she was completely isolated and didn't have anyone to reach out to.These situations can happen to anyone. Teenage suicide is a serious growing problem. The teenage years can be emotionally turbulent and stressful. Teenagers face pressures to succeed and fit in. They may struggle with self esteem issues, self-doubt, and feeling of alienation. For some, this leads to suicide. This book is a real eye-opener, as you read you start identifying people with Hannah Baker and it makes you wonder who else around you is considering