Bob's Monologue

This past September, University of Miami staff, students and community came together to participate in spreading suicide awareness by taking part in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s “Walk out of the Darkness.” According to the University of Miami’s webpage, with more than 39,500 lives lost to suicide this year, this walk is relevant to thousands of people in the University of Miami’s community and it’s clear that UM is eager to get the word

Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people between ages 15 – 34. Now, the question is where’s the effort to stop it? If 90% of people who commit suicide have a mental illness,

All i could hear was the faint yelp of a gravely injured man. As i looked around, i found the source of the adamant yelling.

Healthy People 2020 set a goal of reducing the number of completed suicides among the adult population by ten percent. This is a reoccurring theme from Healthy People 2010, where the goal was to reduce the number of suicides from 10.5 to 4.8 per 100,000. Unfortunately, from 2003 to 2013, rate of death from suicide has steadily increased to the current rate of 13.0 per 100,000 deaths (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). The goal of Healthy People 2020 is to improve the health of our Nation over the next ten years, from a baseline set of data (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). Though suicide is not an illness, it typically is an untreated or undermanaged mental illness that results in a person resorting to

Let me tell you the story of a young man named Billy Bob.Billy Bob is a young man who lives with his parents Jilly Bob and Willy Bob. He has a unique story, he is the only man in the world who doesn’t age. I know you are wondering how can this happen. Back in his hometown Smithfield,Virginia. He was in his laboratory he had built just two years ago, working on a super strength drink. This was what looked to be the way for him to become strong and rich. It didn’t work the first time so he drank some more of it and yet again it didn’t work, feeling like a failure he went back in his parents house disappointed. Yet did he know he had made something no human has ever made in the history of time.

One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to reduce the suicide rate in the U.S. which is currently one of the top 10 causes of death. It is clearly in issue and vital to address this issue because these rates have had a steady incline from 1999-2014. This had led to an age-related suicide rate of 24% because it has gone from 10.5 to 13.0 deaths per 100,000. With such a modernized country, I would think that we would have done something about this earlier on by having more programs and being more proactive about this gruesome problem.

Love has a funny way of telling you you've found it. I, Joe Bob, saw it the moment I met her. I can tell a lot about a person by the way they look at me and I could see that her eyes were like mine. She has a lovely pair of eyes that share their secrets with me. The things she envisions is a world of such depth and ambition as well as compassion and joy. When I lay witness to those dreams mine seem so small. All I want is the privilege to get to live in her world and be a protagonist to her evils and be the chariot to her castle. That first glance did not tell me all of this at once, but when my friend Michelle introduced me to her, I knew that I wanted her. High school is funny like that because sometimes it's in-between classes that you find

In this short explanation, Kime explains the responsibility The Veterans Affairs Department has for our veterans, therefore has to come up with a better plan in order to decrease rate of suicide among veterans. Providing full attention and creating a strategy is the first step the author says. She also suggests providing “mental health experts, advocates and affected families to formulate and action plan in the coming months to reduce these preventable deaths” Kime 2016). She concludes that veterans should enroll into the VA, because most veterans that committed

The goal of this organization is to, first and for most, reduce the number of suicides across the world. The campaign is designed to inform readers of the facts of suicide and the five signs to notice if someone is suffering. The goal of the campaign is to reduce the stigma on suicide by informing the world of the truth about suicide and mental illness and make it easier to talk about, instead of a feared topic that should be avoided. The organization does take donations, but more importantly offers a pledge for people to take to know the five signs that someone is suffering and inform those who pledge as to how to help when a loved one needs it. People can pledge as individuals or as groups, such as the entire state of New Hampshire. By informing people of the issue, signs and solutions, the numbers of those who receive the help that they need and deserve will grow and the numbers of suicides will be reduced. The pledge is easy to take and can be done in a short amount of time. Millions have already pledged to help the solution and millions more will as time goes on and the campaign reaches all areas of the United States, and the world. (Campaign to Change Direction). (Susman, David Ph.D. (2015, April 19)).

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approximately every 13.7 seconds someone in the United States completes suicide. (Erin M. Sullivan & Thomas R. Simon, 2013) In 2007 this preventable public health problem was the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for over 34,000 deaths. (National Institute of Mental Health, 2013) (Elizabeth M. Varcarolis, 2010) This astonishing number of deaths is accumulative of various acts of suicide.

Pueblo Suicide Prevention Center’s mission statement is “To work toward the prevention of suicide through community education and intervention services to people

It has been highlighted that the removal of means used for suicide is important in management of individuals, and modification of general access to dangerous means can also be effective in suicide prevention at the population level

Suicide takes the lives of more than 40,000 people in the United States every year-that’s more than twice the number of homicides. Every 12.3 minutes there is a confirmed death by suicide in this country. It’s the 10th leading cause of death across the lifespan and the 2nd leading cause of death for those 15-24 years old. Men die by suicide at almost 3.5 times the rate of women and women attempt suicide at

It is stated by The National Suicide Research Foundation that the Government could significantly reduce the number of people taking their own lives by adopting a suicide prevention programme that has reduced the suicide rate in Germany by 15 per cent. (Hegerl,U. Wittenburg L, Arensman E, Van Audenhove C, Coyne JC, McDaid D et al.2009)

Did you know that according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention there are 44,193 Americans who commit suicide each year? Did you also know that the costs from those deaths are 51 billion dollars (AFSP, 2017)? These statistics may seem horrific or surprising, but it is the truth. Many die each year to suicide and the facts and outcomes have carved into many families around the world.