Cornell Student Suicides

On October 5, 2016, Fowlerville High School freshman, Brendan Kangas, committed suicide. His whole school and community was struck with grief, previously unaware of Brendan’s battle with depression. The next day school was held on schedule, and it was a very unproductive day. According to the faculty, kids were crying in classrooms, and uninstructed teachers did not know how to handle the situation (Brent). Many Fowlerville students have struggled academically, unable to cope with the news of Brendan’s death. Fowlerville was not prepared to handle such a crisis and administrators were unaware of the effect Brendan’s suicide would have on the school. Since then, several other students in Brendan’s community have attempted to take their lives as well (Brent). Suicide has not only a problem in

On September 8, 2003, former U.S. Senator Gordon Smith's son, Garret Lee Smith, a university student, committed suicide. The event attracted nationwide attention and resulted in the passage of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act (Public Law 108-355) which is intended to raise awareness of the problem and to help young people avoid using this last resort to end their troubles on earth. This paper provides a brief overview and an analysis of this case, followed by a discussion concerning where failures occurred in the process. An examination of potential solutions to these failures is followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning the case in the conclusion.

As students promenade onto campus for the fall semester, most expect that this illustrious university will have everything under control—but it turns out the exact opposite. “New semester, same old problems,” is an opinion article written by Michael Kohut, who is a staff writer for The Statesman newspaper that has been circulating at Stony Brook University for more than fifty years. This article portrays the problems concerning printer malfunctions, the inaccessible buildings on campus due to sidewalk repairs, and the difficulty that it’s causing students. According to Kohut, there is no excuse for these problems on campus because Stony Brook is a notable university that should address issues before students arrive for the new semester.

The current suicide rate among 15- to 24-year olds is quite disturbing. Growing in numbers since 2007, the latest toll taken in 2013 on suicide within college settings is 11.1 deaths per 100,000 people (Scelfo, 2015). According to the article Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection, Pennsylvania State University had six students commit suicide in a 13-month stretch (Scelfo, 2015). Suicide within college settings are usually linked with severe depression. As mentioned by Kevin Breel in the Confessions of a Depressed Comic Ted Talk, depression is not sadness, real depression is being sad when everything in your life is going right and this, this I can personally relate to.

In 2014, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2015), there were twice as many suicides than there were homicides. Suicidal ideation (SI), defined as an individual thinking about, considering, or planning their suicide, is established before the act of committing suicide. Research suggests that adverse childhood experiences (CDC, 2015) will put an individual at risk for developing a mental illness that could result in SI and suicide attempt (SA). It is important for the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) to recognize the signs of SI and SA while assessing their client.

When you listen to a convicted murderer speak of his drunken, physically abusive father, you don’t blink an eye. You say to yourself, “No wonder he turned out that way. He came from a screwed up household.” It makes perfect sense that children born to violent and cruel parents will feel the impact later in life. That being said, not all parents have to be violent and cruel to do serious damage. Does the term “helicopter parenting” ring a bell? Julie Scelfo of the New York Times references the term in her article, “Suicide on Campus and Pressure of Perfection.” In recent years, “helicopter parenting” has become more and more prevalent in our society. These parents relentlessly hover over their children, micro-managing every choice and decision

On November 18, 1978, one of the most tragic catastrophes took place. Taking place in the vast jungles of Guyana, the act of “revolutionary suicide” was undertaken by the people of Jonestown. Killing 918 people, over which 200 were children, this event held the title for being the largest single loss of American civil life in a non-natural disaster for the next 23 years. (ADST, 2017)

Researchers conduct hypotheses that suicide could be contagious. Researchers had a total of 22,064 individuals ages 12 to 17. When conducting the study they met on cycles to monitor the exposure to suicide. All groups which were separated into age had an outcome of 95% of exposure to suicide. Researchers also questioned how often certain groups were or had feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts from stressful events during the cycles. In further research, 24.1% from the ages 16 and 17 responded that someone from school has committed suicide and which 20.1%

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

Twelve students, one teacher, two murderers dead, and twenty-one injured in Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. The perpetrators Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, were both intelligent, but had issues getting along with other students at Columbine high school. However seemingly normal, both were deeply disturbed, hating everyone but a handful of people, in journals found Klebold had been contemplating suicide since 1997, and both have been thinking about a massacre in April of 1998, a full year before it happened. The both of them had been arrested for breaking into a van on January 30, 1998, they had convinced people that they felt guilty for the break in, but behind the scene planned a large scale massacre. The plan of the massacre was

Suicides happen more often in America because of bullying. Bullying needs to stop. Bullying is worse than a bystander because there depressed, mad, or sad.

In order for me to refresh my mind (not just waiting for the holidays and class off days), I decided to take some pictures of Brooklyn College campus and see what students usually do during the gap. By taking it, I thought Fall just Hit the Brooklyn College Campus! The way people dressed up became thicker. Also, many people laid down on the grass and took a nap. It seemed like there are various ways to escape from stress from assignment and tests!

In her informative article, New Building at SJHHS Announced (Oct 25th 2015), author Chetana Piravi asserts the new up-in-coming building soon to be built at SJHHS, and what can come with this new addition, both good and bad. Piravi develops this assertion by using credible sources from around the school such as Principal, Jennifer Smalley and Assistant Principal, Darrin Jindra, giving their take on this new building and how it can positively impact the school. Piravi’s purpose is to explain to both students and parents of SJHHS how this new building although will harm the current Freshman, Sophomores, and Juniors, will certainly pay off in the years to come. Piravi uses a elucidative tone with her young, and troublesome adult audience to give

Main idea: Middle-school students are more likely to die from suicides then from car crashes

Kids that commit suicide at such a young age because of bullying should make America do something about it. More than 14 percent of student that attend a high school have considered committing suicide, and about 7 percent has attempted it. According to Yale University “bully victims are between 2 or 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. Committing suicide is bad in general but when a student commits suicide it is unexplainable because a student has their future ahead of them and they could lose that because a student or students decided to pick on someone because they wanted to be “cool” or show off in front of their friends. Losing lives is not an easy thing to go through. When bullies decide to make fun of a student and