Suicide: Leading Common Causes Of Death

Egoistic suicide which is when individuals are not integrated well enough into society for example people who live alone compared to those who live with family. Secondly Altruistic suicide which is when individuals are felt to be too integrated into society causing suicide, for example members of the armed forces were said to have greater suicide rates than civilian personnel as they were too strongly integrated into a united body. Durkheim also put forward the idea of Anomic suicide, this is when the norms and values in society become unclear or confused in times of great social change and an individual is not taught to adapt to changes well enough. For example an unexpected death of a family member is sudden social change which can cause Anomic suicide. Lastly, he suggested Fatalistic suicide. Fatalism is the excessive amount of regulation which leads to one committing suicide.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has published a fact sheet of statistics on suicide in the United States. In 2007, it is reported that suicide was the tenth leading cause of death. Furthermore, for every suicide committed, eleven were attempted. A total of 34,598 deaths occurred from suicide with an overall rate of 11.3 suicide deaths per 100,000 people. (NIMH, 2010). Risk factors were also noted on this report and listed “depression and other mental disorders, or a substance abuse disorder (often in combination with other mental disorders). More than ninety percent of people who die by suicide have these risk factors (NIMH, 2010).”

When dealing with depression people like to find something that alters reality. These people will turn to drugs and alcohol and in doing this, these people will sometimes end up abusing these things and becoming addicted. Once a person comes back from their intoxication they are usually in a worse condition than when they took the drug. This leads the person down a pretty bad path that can ultimately lead them to taking their own life.

While all the above are driving factors of teen suicide, often the underlying concern is mental illness. Some teens who seek suicide initiate because of depression, borderline personality disorder or bipolar disorder. These illness intensify the pain a teen may suffer. Because of these underling illnesses, teens should seek and treat by medical professional.

These are the details of the three most common suicides. Egoistic suicide is committed by people who are weak and supported by membership in a cohesive social group. They start to depend a huge amount on themselves than on group goals and rules of conduct to sustain them in their lives. When stressful times are around they feel isolated and helpless. Altruistic suicide is committed by people who are extremely committed to group norms and objectives and who notice their own lives as insignificant. These suicides involved dying for some type of cause. Anomic

Attention Getter: Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. surpassed by accidents and homicide. (According to Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention)

Many human deaths are caused by depression, depression can be described by feeling sad, unhappy, or miserable. Research has shown that 90 percent of people who kill themselves suffered from depression, or another diagnosable mental or substance abuse disorder that leads them to this horrible tragedy called suicide (Wilson). Depression can lead to suicide if its not being treated, in the worst case. A harmful life event or events can lead to be a cause of a suicide attempt. If your wife died and you feel like you ca not deal with it, you drown yourself into drugs and drinking, you are left alone your children are now adults and are gone away somewhere married and they can not come with you. So you continue to drown yourself, until you do not have any more money and you go homeless, you then think and start talking to yourself

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.

There has been about 4,400 deaths a year do to suicide. Suicide can be caused by many things. A person can be pushed to suicide, if they are bullied and/or deeply depressed.

With the high risk factor for alcohol abuse you can correlate that it is related to suicide through a study that involved approximately 300 veterans who were being seen for depression and who eventually completed suicide. These cases all involved alcohol dependencies as a severe risk factor (Subhajit Chakravorty et al. 2014).

Altruistic suicide occurs when there are dramatic social forces. An example would be a plane crash, the people who commit suicide feel that they are doing it for the better of their organization or themselves. A few real-life examples of this would be 9/11, the Pulse night club shooting, and the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. Egoistic suicide occurs when a person feels detached from society. Many elderly people who live in nursing homes feel detached from society. They went from cooking, cleaning, and going to work every day to not having a say in what they do or when they see their family. For some people this is too much and they become suicidal. Fatalistic suicide occurs when people feel that they have no control over their world. An example would be when Trump was elected president, for some people this would have been too much to handle and it would have put them over the edge. Another example could be a prisoner, if someone is on death row and they have sat there for twenty plus years, sometimes they would rather die than sit there another day.

Suicide is not something that can be overlooked. At today's point in time, suicide is the third leading cause of death. It can be prevented and it can be stopped. There are so many innocent lives that are being taken away everyday because of other people's hurting words and actions.

Emile Durkheim defines suicide as “…the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result.”Emile Durkheim, in his book, Le Suicide (1897)gives the types of suicide he advocate. In this book he discusses four types of suicide. He talks about Egoistic, Altruistic, Anomic and Fatalistic suicide.Egoistic according to Durkheim, is caused by lack of social integration of society in the religious sphere, domestic, and the political sphere.Altruistic Suicide is characterized by a sense of being overwhelmed by a group's goal and beliefs.Anomic Suicide is due to certain breakdown of social stability. Fatalistic suicide is caused when a person’s future actions are stopped by

Suicide by Émile Durkheim is well known text in sociology that is extensively taught to students within the field. Suicide was published in 1897, the work is considered cutting-edge both for showing detailed research of suicide that revealed there can and is social causes to suicide. Based on Durkheim’s research he said that suicide can be caused by social factors, not just individual psychological ones. Durkheim reasoned that being apart of society and integrated into groups in particular is a main factor. The more involved in society and connected to others the less likely they are to commit suicide. As this sense of belonging decreases suicide increases. Durkheim’s theory is formulated by four types of suicide (Egoistic, Altruistic, Anomic,

one who cuts off from society to be alone. this type is common more towards the teenagers going through changes in their life, they will lock themselves away for days trying to forget the world and avoid dealing with their problems. as the individual may feel that it's a good escape it does not benefit them and may lead them into a deeper depression. the second Type Altrustic Suicide: which resulted the individual from the taking of their own life due to higher commandments in other words, commiting suicide for the feeling that it will benefit others. For the third type Anomic suicide Is due to an individual dealing with a certain breakdown of a social circumstance for an example bankruptcy. where they feel like they are forced to kill themselves in order not to deal with the circumstance. Finally, for the last type Fatalistic suicide due to the overregulation in society.