Physician Assisted Suicide Case Study

In the interviews, Williams’ friends shared not only the favorable experiences with him but also the unsettling ones which served as the clues on what triggered his suicide. Browne swayed the readers into coding the causes of hid suicide throughout the whole article and did not drop the “this is what caused his suicide” bomb in one paragraph.

There are several causative factors that may have led to the increase in the suicide rates, but suicide

Medical care in America is estimated to cost $2.7 trillion each year with roughly 30 percent of that cost attributed to ineffective or redundant care, approximately $800 billion (America's Health Insurance Plans, 2014; FOX, 2010). Within this section $44.6 billion is attributed to suicide treatment and medical cost (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). The CDD further estimates that with approximately 40,000 people dying of suicide annually suicide contributes to the 10th leading cause of death for Americans, narrowly being outstrode by kidney disease and influenza yet still achieving a higher overall medical cost than the ninth and eighth ranked causes of death (Keren, Zaoutis, Saddlemire, Luan, & Coffin, 2006;Webberley, 2015).

Suicide has historically been and continues to be a significant issue in the United States, for civilians as well as active duty military service members and veterans. While statistics surrounding suicide appear to be just numbers on a page, I personally implore the reader of the following paper to never lose sight of the fact that those numbers represent real people. Each one of those people, be they civilian or military, represent a loss of a father or a mother, a brother or a sister, a son or a daughter, a best friend, a comrade, …a person whose life, and that life’s potential, is now forever lost. The following statistics on suicide rates in the United States do not differentiate if the individual was a civilian, an active duty

Communication is a very intricate part of a successful strategic plan. Collaboration with the board, executive leaders, management team all the way to front-line staff must be informed what the strategic plan is and how it relates to the mission and vision. The mission, vision, values, goals and objectives of the organization must be organizational-wide dissemination. In order to have an effective and efficient strategic plan one must first select a strategic leader to help decide what their mission and vision will be. “Strategic leadership involves creating a vision and strategy that helps the organization succeed at its mission in both the short and the long term” (Spath, Abraham, 2014).

The first sociologist to research into suicide was Ėmile Durkheim; he “wished to show that sociological factors were ‘capable of explaining much about such anti-social phenomena’” (Gingrich). Durkheim’s research allowed for him to understand how society connected to the rates of suicide and, more detailed, the importance of social integration on the rates of suicide across the country. He found a correlation between the rates of suicide and the seasons because the amount of social interactions increased as the seasons became longer and people were more likely to interact with the more accommodating temperatures (Gingrich). His views on suicide can all relate back to the degree to which society plays a role in one’s life due to the amount of interactions one has with society and the regulations that society imposes on the individual (Gingrich). Along with this view Durkheim also created four different reasons for committing suicide. The first type of suicide is egoistic suicide is when social integration in very limited, and people have the feeling of being normless. Next is altruistic suicide where societal pressures were too great and where suicide is forced upon a person, like the ritual suicides found in Japan that will be discussed later in this text. Anomic suicide is when there is a change in society, and the norms and

The Center for Disease Control is responsible for keeping track and providing facts and figures for suicide. They describe suicide as a serious problem and a leading cause of death in the United States. It is in fact the 10th leading cause of death across all age groups. In 2013, an estimated 41,149 people successfully committed suicide (Understanding). In contrast, 494,169 attempted to harm or kill themselves but failed (Understanding). Many more people are thought to have tried and not sought out help, leaving them an unknown factor in the equation. All in all, suicide and its attempt are responsible 6.1 billion dollars in medical and work loss costs in the United States annually (Understanding).

Suicide occurs throughout the lifespan and was the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year olds globally in 2012.” People who are 15-29 years olds would normally study or work in the society, so they might have had a problem about modern society. Also, the number of people who die due to suicide every year would prove that people are affected by society and have something bad problem about the society. The problems would be occurred in school or workplace, and those problems would be related to mental health such as bully, harassment and

Since 2004, the suicide rates among SMs began to steadily increase almost every year (Zoroya, 2016). 2003 was the beginning of the combat operations in Iraq. The proximity of those two events may indicate a direct correlation between the two. In 2012, the suicide rate was at an all-time high, showing an increase of approximately 266 percent from 2001 (Zoroya, 2016). In 2013, there was a decline in suicides of about twenty-seven percent from the previous year. The suicide rate has, since 2013, remained roughly the same, holding at around 120 suicides per year (Zoroya, 2016).

The author decided to pick this topic after watching a documentary on suicide titled, “The Bridge” which occurred at the golden gate bridge in San Francisco, CA. One could see in this documentary how various individuals of different age groups jumped from this bridge and died. From the author’s observation, all the individuals who jumped from this bridge had some sort of issues going on and most were due to some kind of mental illness. Thus, the author decided to pick this topic “depression” which is one of the high risk factor for suicide. Just in 2013, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death for all ages in the United States and by 2015, variation occurred. Suicide went up to being the second leading cause of death in persons aged 15-34

Paul S. F. Yip., and Eric D. Caine convey through the article called “Employment Status and Suicide: The Complex Relationship between Changing Unemployment Rates and Death Rates” that it is important to discriminate between population-level concepts, such as employment rate, when thinking about suicide prevention plans. An analysis of the article shows they delivered significant information and used adequate resources.

Suicidal behaviours can impact workplaces, whereby the employee may become unproductive, hence employer must find and train a replacement (Machado, Rasella & Darci Neves dos, 2015). Machado et al., (2015) emphasised suicidal victim’s family suffers as the individual cannot contribute to home and family is burdened with expenses such as in Lorrain’s case, her family paid her $8000 debt. If the victim dies, the family must finance the funeral cost

Quit simply, it is the biggest study on the specific case of bridge jumpers on the Golden Gate Bridge. "The way to end suicides at the Golden Gate Bridge and every other problem bridge in the world is simple and straightforward: erect a barrier. In every instance in which a barrier has been added to a bridge, tall building, freeway overpass, or train crossing, suicides from that site have been reduced dramatically or ended altogether. Moreover, once a barrier—either a tall railing or a net—has gone up, suicides haven’t increased from neighboring sites, nor have most people who fixated on the bridge decided to kill themselves another way. Many members of the public choose to believe otherwise, but their belief is based on intuition rather than

The latest incident involved about 18 Foxconn employees who jumped off from the building to fatality. The media reported that there were nearly eighteen workers at the China factories who attempted or committed the suicidal act. TV news clipping showed fall protection nets in place that went up after psychologists recommended them. An investigation by an undercover team revealed that the underlying cause of mass suicides was due to work conditions rather that any personal or social reasons. The specific reasons for each suicidal cases are still unclear and the “silence mode” prevails in the organization in which an employee is threatened to loose job if they speak up.

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death and is growing at a fast rate in America. Every thirteen minutes a death by suicide occurs. Currently the suicide rate for males is five times higher compared to that of females. Out of all US suicides, male suicide takes up approximately 79%. This phenomena continues to persist even after years of this statistic being put on the public spectrum. These causes for suicide include but are not limited to; the pressure put upon men to be “the primary earner” and provide for the family, the collapse of the job market during 2008 when there was an alarming spike in male suicide and job loss, and the fact that when men do commit suicide they tend to do it with lethal methods such as a firearm.