National Suicide: A Short Story

Among American civilians, whites have historically and significantly led the way in the rates of suicides. Although leveling off after the 1990’s, the rate of white suicides has still been almost twice as much as minority groups. It has also been shown that males commit suicide significantly more than females.

Both Suicide and Modernity and The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations by Emile Durkheim have a focus around people and their relationship with religion and their way of thinking about the world around them. In Suicide and Modernity, Durkheim talks about people and their goals and how goals and desires effect them, while The Cultural Logic of Collective Representations talks about where different ideas and desires originate from. Durkheim starts off Suicide and Modernity by talking about humans and the fact that no one can be happy without having their desires match what their real means are. If a person’s desires are greater than what they are actually able to have and achieve, no one is going to be happy. Humans are different from

Throughout history, there have been many wars that were fought. When thinking of combats, many citizens associate battles with the thought of physical wars, but many don't think of the mental battles that might occur within a person. Teen suicide, which is known as the second leading cause of death globally, is frequently overlooked and underestimated as a problem when confronted about it. The poem, Romeo and Juliet by the famous author William Shakespeare, uses literature to profoundly go into the concept of how suicide can affect everyone. The community of Orland Park has taken their part to inform the society, by setting up basic services for people to learn or get help about suicide prevention. While resources are available in our

Fighting for justice in “Revolutionary Suicide” presents two conflicts between suicide and salvation. In Oakland California around 1970, African Americans were being so mistreated that a movement was created to fight for black power which is known as Black Panther Party. African Americans were going up against the police and government of the racist south. This was a time Jim Crow laws had just ending along with segregation ,but that dosen’t mean that the whites of the south still didn’t have the same intentions they used to have about blacks. Which lead to many confrontations that resulted in death or injury causing revolutionary suicide. In poem “Revolutionary Suicide,” The style of the poem is built of a cause and effect. First, the speaker addresses that having nothing causes him to have everything .“By having no family I inherited the family of humanity …By having surrendering my life to the revolution I found internal life.” Readers can get an impression that the speaker would make a great leader. Especially when he tells the audience that he is willing to sacrifice himself in order to gain revolution. The speaker is confronting the opposition letting them know he is not afraid of death nor them. He also writes this in the poem

The poem “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka uses vivid images of sights, sounds, and daily activities to symbolize a heartfelt story. In the poem, Amiri, is one of the African American slaves who is frustrated about the discriminatory treatment by whites. So frustrated he wants to commit suicide. The writer used transition words starting with “lately”, “now”, and “then” for each stanza. He was imagining how he acted before his death and how his daughter reacted to his death.

An individual should seek help as soon as possible by contacting a mental health professional or by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK if you or someone you know exhibits any of the following signs:

If you -- or anyone you know -- are considering self-harm, get help fast by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. The line is open 24 hours daily.

The bottom was characterize as a large black neighborhood in Ohio, that stood above the hill of Medallion was a predominately white wealthy community. Before it was call the Bottom, now they call it the suburbs. Consequently, a good slave master promised freedom and piece of land if the slave perform difficult chores, when they finish the work he was hastens about giving away valley land he hope to give away piece of the bottom. However, the slave thought the valley land was the bottom, the master told them when God look down, it's the bottom, it the bottom of heaven best land there is. And they agree to it, And it was done. Shadrack was a citizen of the bottom, he fought in WWI, return back as a damaged man that couldn't cope with reality of what was happening in the world, his mental state of mind was unstable he live around the border of the town to find harmony in his life.

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%

According to Finley, Bolinger, Noel, Amuan, Copeland, Pugh, Dassori, Palmer, Bryan, and Pugh (2015), a group of veteran mental health members addressed the problematic issue of whether suicide events showed an increase in suicide episodes since and related to the United States involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Research reported by the authors used the Department of Veterans Affairs administrative data to identify descriptive statistics followed by multinominal logistic regression analyzes. The authors also used international classification of diseases, ninth revision, clinical modification codes (2009-2011) to characterize 211652 cohort members. This retrospective cohort study revealed subgroups that created risk factors possibly elevating the occurrences of suicide. Prior psychological diagnosis is already known to be risk factors when associated with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, substance abuse, and sleeping deprivation. The author 's intent was to identify which conditions were at a greater risk for suicide ideation. The researchers’ finding from their sample size of 211,652 service members returning from Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) that 97.3% had neither suicide ideation nor a suicide attempt documented in 2010-2011. Additionally, the servicemen who were identified as individuals with suicide-related behaviors (SRB) resulted in only 2% having ideations only and .4% had attempts only, .3%

 Thesis: While Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, I believe That Suicide is wrong.

“Okay, I’ll be outside if you need me. Call me for anything. I’m here to help”

And of course if the situation is too advance that it attempts to the child well being, 911 or there are always local and national suicide hotlines, that can help people with suicide thoughts.

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.

Someone, somewhere, commits suicide every 18 minutes. You might never be able to tell who it will be, it could be the person sitting right next . Statistics reveal that approximately three million youths, between 12-18, have either thought about or attempted suicide in the past year. More than 1/3, actually succeeded.