Suicide And The Effects On Their Families

Some people go through their lives acting happy when in reality they have been considering suicide. If they end their life, it shocks the people around them, and often leaves them with a changed outlook. In Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, an average girl named Hannah Baker commits suicide and forever changes the people with whom she was closest. Before she dies, she leaves a set of tapes meant for the students who caused her to make her decision. After listening to the tapes, each person mentioned in them learns how their actions affected Hannah in the long run. Her suicide causes every character to think and reflect on how thy hurt their former classmate. Real-life suicides change the real world, as many recent or famous ones have. Whether

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 is a controversial topic in today’s society, as some individuals believe it causes no effect on other individuals. This statement, however, is false because not only will it affect your family but it effects your colleagues, friends, and even old classmates. One of the hardest things that a community can face is the loss of a young person’s life, as it effects everyone in the community. This death can lead to multiple community members feeling guilty, not only for not having prevented the suicide, but also due to distress, anger, and confusion. More specifically, in regards to family members, it can lead to mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, divorce, and are at higher risk to commit suicide themselves (Tracy, 2016, para. 3,4,5,6,7,8,9). The distress not only will have short term effects but it will

“Suicide does not end the pain; it just transfers it to someone else,” said David Foster Wallace. When I got a call early in the morning on January 4th, 2016 my life changed forever. My best friend and boyfriend had committed suicide by the hands of an overdose. His mom called to tell me they found him in his home not long ago, dead. His death was ruled a suicide because of the note he had left. Grief and pain come with a death natural or otherwise, but there are many nuisances unique to dealing with suicide.

“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” - Phil Donahue. As a complex, tragic public health issue, suicide occurs in men significantly more often than in women. Suicide is simply defined as the act of intentionally ending one’s own life, however, the factors that play into a person making that decision are anything but simple. The most evident and severe effect of suicide is the loss of a valuable, meaningful human life. According to Harvard School of Public Health (n.d.), suicide affects parents, children, siblings, friends, lovers, and spouses; the loss to society is psychological, spiritual, and financial. People who lose a loved one to suicide often experience devastating effects and deal with a complex grief. These

Imagine someone’s best friend dies. Later this person discovers that their friend commit suicide. Envision this person’s feelings and all of the painful thoughts and memories going through their mind. This person probably feels intense sadness and maybe even betrayal. Do not forget the suicide victim’s parents. Their own child felt worthless enough to kill themselves. The students at the victim’s school have confusion, start rumors, and gossip. All of the victim’s friends feel as if the suicide happened because of them. Everyone feels as if they could have done something to prevent this tragic event. Suicide is a social issue rising in severity. Each year, over a million people commit suicide throughout the world. Suicide has the name of a

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death mostly in the age of 16-24. Suicide is becoming major issue in United States. Rate of Suicide in teenagers is rising day by day. I believe the people who commit a suicide are selfish people because they don’t think about their friends and family. When I was in my senior year a friend of mine, Jassey committed the suicide. A day before that we both were working on our government project, everything was great. Next day of school, I was in my math class, doing my warmup questions, and was not listening to our daily announcement. Suddenly I heard that Jassey had committed a suicide, it was shocking. He committed a suicide because he broke up with his girlfriend. His death was so depressing and shocking.

This book is like downing a shot of whiskey. It's from the heart and it's powerful. As a social worker who has worked in various health settings, I have encountered suicide on a number of occasions through my career. It's always something that hits you badly, even when your relationship with the person has been a professional one. As I read Amanda Evan's book, I found myself thinking about some of those people. Suicide is hard for everyone, but I can hardly begin to imagine how devastating it must be for a family member. And in this book, you get the recollections from three family members. Two daughters and a mother. I was particularly touched by the daughter who identifies herself as being a rebellious teenager, and the guilt and self-blame she unreasonably carried for some time after. It's a real privilege Amanda Evans has published this deeply personal book for us to read. - Stephen

Yet, suicide also affects different kinds of individuals which happen to be of distinct racial and ethnic status. The socioeconomic status also plays a role in determining the individuals who commit suicide. In the article “Suicide and the Creative Class,” it states the following, “Thus, different groups will be more or less likely to commit suicide. These differences make suicide an important area of study for social scientists because of its prevalence, preventability, and the wide sweeping effects that it has on family, friends, and acquaintances of suicide victims” (Moore, Recker, & Heirigs, 2014). Thus, implicating the pressures of society and the differences of social status.

The founders of the organization brought individuals who have experienced the loss of a loved one together, in efforts to educate and promote the awareness of suicide. Most witnesses of suicide do not understand the reasoning behind it. Individuals are in search of support, but also dedicated to understanding the line of why death was the only resolution. Common questions include what the person in pain must have contemplated mentally, and if it was possible that the incident could have been prevented. While the founders all individually tried to cope with their losses, they then noticed that there were actually more families going through the same tough situation. Getting together for support and hoping to find some answers to the why- question, they found that there was a need for suicide research and education. The struggling families then, are the roots of the Foundation’s aim now; to understand and prevent suicide through experience and funded research.

The lives of people living in the United States are influenced by factors that influence them indirectly from the social environment and factors that affect them personally. Since this is a class about Sociology we must predominately look at the social factors. The numbers of suicides in the U.S. by state follows several patterns that add up to one very large problem.

The study focuses on the suicide bereavement and the other forms of bereavement. We will be using the qualitative research methodology in this study. Most of the quantitative studies conducted to find whether the bereavement due to suicide is different than other forms of bereavement found that there is not much of a difference in the bereavement. Simple quantitative measures of grief may not identify some of the thematic or qualitative differences such as the heightened feeling of guilt and preoccupation with the question of why the death has occurred. These are more likely to be observed in qualitatively based research methodology. (Neimeyer & Hogan, 2001)

First, let’s establish the language of suicide grief as it is unique from other grief. A suicide survivor is someone like me and the millions of others world wide who have lost a loved one to suicide. “To survive means to stay alive, endure, recover after an accident. We do not normally or immediately think of a survivor as someone whole lives after someone else dies” (Smith, 2013, 24). I think this distinction in the language and the meaning it carries with it, gives a different dimension to suicide grief that has always made me feel different from everyone else. I do not say, “I lost my father to cancer” or “my dad got hit by a car”. Even though everyone’s grief is unique, suicide grief is different. My father died, because he willed it so. In addition to all the feelings associated to grief, suicide has the added component of rejection: “he chose death over being with us”. Now that I have addressed the different language and meaning to grief from a suicide survivor’s standpoint, let’s move on.

Analysis: The fact of suicide is kind of uneasy to read about. Some parents don’t want their child reading about someone who wants to die