The 10th Leading Cause Of Suicide

People have been committing suicide since the beginning of time. Suicide is defined as the death of a person, caused by self-directed injurious behavior, with any intent to die as a result of that behavior. A suicide attempt, is a non-fatal, self directed, potentially harmful behavior, with any intent to die as a result.. A suicide attempt may or may not result in personal or physical harm. Suicidal ideation is an individual having ideas and considering or planning to end his or her life. Suicide is usually carried out as a result of ultimate despair due to certain mental disorders such as severe depression, schizophrenia, borderline and bipolar personality disorders, alcoholism and or drug abuse. High stress levels and anxiety due to financial difficulties and personal relationships can also be contributing factors of suicide. According to The National Institute of Mental Health, research has shown that the majority of victims of deaths by suicide had been diagnosed with some type of depressive mental illness. Suicide and suicide attempts have a dramatic impact and take an enormous toll on society. According to recent studies by the CDC, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among Americans. CDC reports state that last year alone, there are more than 38,000 people who have committed suicide, over one million people have been reported of making a suicide attempts, and two million people have been reported of thinking

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

Every 40 seconds someone in the world DIES by suicide, every 41 seconds someone is left to make SENSE of it. Suicide is when someone intentionally end his or her own life for varying reasons which they find them reasonable and worthy enough to give up their lives. Suicide is event that is hard to cope with especially then the one who dies is young the devastation is even more profound. Suicide recently settled in the 3rd place of the top leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds, barely surpassed by homicide and accidents (http://www.kidshealth.org). Many life events that happens on daily basis could lead to thoughts as confusion, self-doubt, bullying, depression, financial issues or pressure to succeed. When It comes to pressure to succeed in some countries like Egypt parents are adamant about the idea that their children must achieve educational ranks and get enrolled in what they see high prestigious majors as medicine and engineering. Suicide would be prevented more psychologically than physically as the tools used for ending one’s life or self-harming usually is accessible to all the people, it could be a firearm, pills or jumping of heights they are all easy to reach methods or tools. However, parents rarely give attention or realise the prevalence of suicide.

42,773 people commit suicide every year in the United States. “Suicide is...the sincerest form of criticism life gets” Wilfrid Sheed. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. For every successful suicide, there are ten men and women who attempt suicide. And for every one of those, there are ten who think of killing themselves, but do not.(Some Reasons). People commit suicide for multiple reasons.

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.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in America especially among teenagers. The following data was drawn from the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, it shows the suicide rates for males and females aged 15-19 years from 1975-2015 in the United States:

The author decided to pick this topic after watching a documentary on suicide titled, “The Bridge” which occurred at the golden gate bridge in San Francisco, CA. One could see in this documentary how various individuals of different age groups jumped from this bridge and died. From the author’s observation, all the individuals who jumped from this bridge had some sort of issues going on and most were due to some kind of mental illness. Thus, the author decided to pick this topic “depression” which is one of the high risk factor for suicide. Just in 2013, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death for all ages in the United States and by 2015, variation occurred. Suicide went up to being the second leading cause of death in persons aged 15-34

What is suicide? According to Dictionary.com, Suicide is “the intentional taking of one’s own life” (Dictionary.com, 2009). Suicide takes the lives of almost 30,000 Americans a year and is the 11th leading cause of death in American, homicide being the 15th (Save.org, 2009). Suicide can be caused by many different abnormal behaviors and can effect not only the victim but also family and friends of the victim. Suicidal thoughts and feelings should be taken seriously because they’re true feelings one is having. I hope to educate the reader on abnormal disorders that can cause suicide, the symptoms and behaviors of a suicidal person, and educate the reader on ways to prevent a person from taking

When it comes to adults, the leading causes of suicide include terminal illness. The mentality of having to stay with the sickness for his/her entire life is always hard to bear. This often led to suicide. Secondly, financial stress. These include mortgages, loans, and debts (Nock et al. 2008). This is always associated with unemployment or loss of a job. With these challenges and negative thoughts in their mind, individuals may decide to take their own life and escape from the pain that they are going through. For adults, it is recommended for them to control their thoughts when going through challenges that they can’t

Depression has been identified as the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of burden (Whisman 2015). The result of depression can lead to deteriorated relationships, poor academic outcomes, and low outlook on life. Likewise, depression has been shown to increase the likelihood of chronic diseases in an individual. Depression increases one’s probability of diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and obesity (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2017). Depression can also have a more serious ramification. This illness does not cause death, however, untreated this illness can lead to suicide. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 2017) and the 3rd leading cause of death in individuals aged 15-24 (Smith 2015). Suicide can occur as a result of many different situations, but negative mental health is a common precursor. It was found that approximately 1,110 college students commit suicide per year (Smith 2015). This alarming statistic solidifies college students’ need for help.

All of these risk factors aide in the taking of one’s life, yet we hardly look at the underlying causes. Instead of thinking about why someone attempted or completed suicide, we want to place blame on people, rather than any of the things above that they could have been experiencing. All of these risk factors stated above are some of the most crucial reasons that suicide is brought upon and without being educated about all of the possibilities and how we can help, we leave suicide an open door rather than a

According to the first chart (10 leading causes of death by age group), the leading cause of my age group(15-24) is suicide. On the other hand, the second chart(10 leading causes of injury death by age group highlighting violence-related injury death) indicated that homicide firearm is the leading cause of my age group (15-24).

Suicides are a result of depression or some kind of mental illness. Most people who complete suicide don’t necessarily want to die, but they feel as if giving up there life is the only solution to cure their pain. Suicide in the United States is the 10th leading cause of death; homicide ranks 16th, according to Center for Disease Control (CDC). Some recent rates, confirmed by CDC, in 2013 there were approximately 41,149 deaths caused by people completing suicide. Depression is one of the main causes that suicides happen. Without professional help, depression can really take over your mind and exceed to a high risk or endangerment and self-harm. Depression is a mood disorder, which causes a person’s feelings, behavior and moods to change making them sad or sick. Depression has affected on an average of 20-25% Americans from ages 18+ in a given year. (CDC)

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, “suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, taking the lives of approximately 43,000 Americans each year” (Legg, 2016). When a person is decides to take their own life they are committing suicide. Everyday someone dies by their own hand for several different reasons and factors. Even though there are ways to prevent suicide and many different treatments available to help stop the thoughts and act of it, Individuals have to understand the psychological perspective because a person’s age and culture can contribute to suicide. Suicide is viewed by society in so many different ways, and it is not always a simple thing to understand. Depression and mental illness has factored into all suicide. When a person is feels as if their life is spinning out of control and they can grabs any control of the person thinking about suicide goes ahead and take their own life.

Suicide is a major public health problem in the United States. In 2015, 44,193 Americans died from self-directed violence, making suicide the 10th leading cause of death among all U.S. citizens (CDC, 2017). It is the 2nd leading cause among the age groups 15-24 and 25-34 and the 3rd leading cause among children 10-14, surpassing cancer (CDC, 2017). The National Institute of Mental Health’s 2016 Fact Sheet reports that more than 90% of people who die by suicide have depression or other mental disorders (NIMH, 2017).