Nick Hornby. a Long Way Down

Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other, but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down, a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin, a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen, the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess, an obnoxious teenager living recklessly to avoid her reality of a missing sister; and JJ, the American and aspiring musician who's found himself lonely and alone in England. This unexpected group meets on New Year's Eve on the roof of the well-known suicide spot

There are several risk factors that put Joanne at High Risk for suicide. She states that she did not want to stay and talk, but that she “just wanted to go for a drive” and has a gun in the car, so she is at a high risk given the methods and accessibility to those methods (Jackson-Cherry & Erford, 2018). She has previous suicide attempts, while there is no time frame on when those prior attempts took place, it places her in at a moderate risk at the very least (if 1 to 5 years ago) (Jackson-Cherry & Erford, 2018). She does not report loneliness or hopelessness at this current moment, but given her history of depression, past divorce and no significant other, admissions of guilt over an affair, having no hobbies and getting “all her satisfaction” from work, it is likely that she has or current is experiencing some level of loneliness, and her past attempts are potentially indicative of hopelessness; all these factors put her at a minimum of a moderate risk, but further information would probably lead to a high risk. The divorce, lack of relationship or mention of friendships does put the loneliness at a high risk due to having limited support (Jackson-Cherry & Erford, 2018). There is no mention of substance abuse. There is also no point that she states suicidal plans or ideation, but her behaviors show some ideation present. Her risk factors for chance of intervention are dependent on

Suicide is a very sad subject for all those who have had a relative or friend who went through it. However, suicide doesn’t only go across teens minds it also happens to adults as seen in the article, “Survivors of Suicide Loss”. Jessica is the daughter of a man who went through suicide and she says, “The emotions that ran through me are close to indescribable, as I had never felt such pain. How this could have happened, and most importantly, how could this have happened to me and my family.” This is a case where the suicide was caused by depression. At the end of the day we all have to just try and be closer to those we care for and

Most people would assume that with the higher rates of suicide that more people would understand suicide and ways to help prevent it and yet the numbers just keep rising. Symbolic Interactionism can be used to describe how our society views suicide and why suicide is an all too common escape from life. Some of the prominent causes of suicide are pain, loneliness, rejection, abuse, deep sadness, guilt, depression, helplessness and most of all hopelessness. Although most of the time our society as a collective does not see that a person is suffering from these problems until it is too late. When people take their own lives, family members and peers see this act as being selfish. It’s often hard for people who do not suffer from a mental illness to understand why people who do have them act the way they do. A majority of people blow off mental illnesses because they think that someone might just be acting a certain way for attention or don’t actually see the real problem. In some cultures suicide can be a rewarding sacrifice. For example, when people make a heroic sacrifice for the benefit of their community. In the United States, we don’t necessarily understand how sacrificing a person can be beneficial to the society, but to the other cultures it’s something that can be highly

Suicide affects many all around the world and suicide rate keep increasing, making suicide a growing concern. In the film Cake, the main character Claire Bennett develops an odd fascination with the suicide of a woman from her support group. In this paper, I will focus on Claire.

Suicide is a sensitive topic for most people, and in the GQ article “Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World”, Nadya Labi creates a strong ethos as she writes a nonfiction article about an online predator who preyed on people going on suicide chat sites. In the article Nadya writes about how a man named William Melchert-Dinkel under the online pseudonym Li Dao would go on suicide chat rooms and do his best to convince people to go through with their suicidal thoughts and hang themselves, and Celia Blay, with the help of another woman Kat Lowe, do what they can to hunt him down. In doing this she creates a nonfiction piece the manifests itself as typical hero and rival story, a story in which the hero, protagonist, or good-doer attempts to stop the villain, rival, antagonist or wrong doer from whatever harm they with to inflict. Even more specifically, Labi piece can be read as a detective story, in which the hero goes through trials and research in order to hunt down a criminal whose identity is often initially unknown.

When a person decides to commit suicide, it is at times seen to be very selfish and cowardly. It is considered the easy way out. Whether it is running from punishment, leaving loved ones behind, or tearing a family apart, suicide is not the answer.

As one may expect, suicide is a huge problem in this country. Many people are trainied to be sucide bombers. However, there are those that commit suicide for other reasons such as not being able to take their way of living anymore, some women take their own lives due to not being able to handle being married to abusive drug addicted husbands. Men take their own lives simply due to not wanting to go on anymore.

Although she hasn’t ever considered suicide, Jessica has found herself increasingly dissatisfied with her life. She’s been having frequent thoughts of wishing she was dead. She gets frustrated with herself because she feels like she has every reason to be happy, but can’t seem to shake the sense of failure that has been haunting her.

It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. This true, but eye-opening statement is the very first line of the book about Craig Gilner's thoughts. Craig is put under a lot of pressure from school, which leads to suicidal thoughts, an eating disorder, and insomnia. Craig is extremely sad, but not in a I-just-got-my-heart-broken way. He's sad in a I-don't-want-to-live-in-this-world-anymore kind of way. A there's-no-point-why-do-I-exist kind of way. This way of thinking leads to him to the Brooklyn Bridge at midnight. Before he jumps off, he stops himself, dials 1-800-SUICIDE and goes straight to the A&E to check himself in as suicidal. He spends 1 week in psychiatric ward of the hospital.

can't see the way out of the problem and think suicide is the only choice.

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.

Suicide is an act that not only “injures one’s health, hastens one’s own death and… causes premature death” for the individual, but it also negatively affects others around them (Farberow, 28). There are many reasons that drive people to resort to suicide and Marsha Norman explores many of these reasons in her play ‘night, Mother as the protagonist, Jessie Cates, makes the decision to end her life. Throughout the play, reasons as to why Jessie personally decided to end her life are mentioned, but in order to fully understand why she decided to commit this fatal act her surroundings and history must be taken into consideration as multiple influences pushed Jessie over the point of no return.

Suicide is a major problem worldwide; especially for teenagers. Self image plays a big roll in American society today, especially in enabling someone to make a wrong and destructive decision like suicide. Self image and low esteem effect the chances of a teenagers suicide greatly. There are many events that lead up to a young persons suicide, for instance a little problem that seems inescapable which manifests themselves into overwhelming burdens. Detection and prevention are both key for adults and young people to stop suicide from happening.

The movie was released in 2013, but the book was first published in 1853. The setting of the movie was in the US, mostly in the states New York and Louisiana.