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Suicide And Suicide : The Causes Of Suicide

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Put yourself in this position: you’ve been close friends with this girl for about two years, she is the most beautiful girl you’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, you’re stuck in the friendzone, but that’s irrelevant; it is almost Christmas and she has you over and you watch Home Alone in her living room with her and her mother, and at the conclusion you say your goodbyes and leave. I had no idea that was the last time I’d see her. That was a Friday, the following Monday she laid down on train tracks while a train came by at approximately 80mph, ending her life. The effects of a suicide on friends and family members are often devastating. People who lose a loved one to suicide are more at risk for becoming preoccupied with the reason for the suicide while wanting to deny or hide the cause of death, wondering if they could have prevented it, feeling blamed for the problems that preceded the suicide, feeling rejected by their loved one, and branded by others. This is quite understandable given that the person they are grieving is at the same time the victim and the perpetrator of the fatal act (W. Ed.). 2011, February 9). Suicide can change the lives of everyone who knew the victim, causing mental, physical and psychological harm to those closest to the deceased. I never thought mental illness was real, “get over it” was the attitude I had toward depression, never had the possibility crossed my mind of getting down with this sickness. Depression is an illness that can affect anyone

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