We as people don’t often quite think about the choices we make for ourselves and the affects it may have on other people. Our choices can have either a positive or a negative effect on a person rather we know it or not. Even though we’ve made a personal choice for ourselves that we may find comforting, we never really think of how it can benefit the people around us. Take suicide for an example. A person can be so depressed that they feel that the only way out of life is to end their life. Committing suicide can be relaxing and satisfying for the person who commits it, however, what about those around us. What about our loved ones, our friends, or family, etc. The suicide victim doesn’t think of these questions as they commence to doing so. Killing yourself can be intended for you because you may feel so depressed and so down on yourself that you are just ready to die. The act of dying sounds so much more peaceful to a suicide victim rather than living life here on earth. A person contemplating suicide may feel that that is the only way to end his/her pain and suffering. They intentionally believe that taking their own life will release the burden that they may feel that they have on their family. When someone feels the need to end their on life, they don’t necessarily do it to end their pain, but because they feel that there is no reason for them to keep going on with life. So they intentionally decide to kill themselves. Stress is one of the main reasons as to why people
A teenager may commit suicide for different reasons, but two common reasons for people to kill themselves are depression and bullying. Depression is commonly a thing which happens as a result of mental disorders such as Bipolar. Mostly people who commit suicide have a disorder of some kind. Pappas mentions this in her article as well. In it Pappas states, “The vast majority of people who do kill themselves have a mental illness. More than 90 percent of people who kill themselves have a mental disorder, either depression, bipolar disorder or some other diagnosis,
There is at least 113 suicides each day or 1 every 13 minutes. Suicide among males is the seventh leading cause of death and the fourteenth leading cause in females. Most suicides are with a firearm and are carried out with a “ Saturday night special”. (Dilaura,Cynthia DiLaura) “More than 90 percent of suicide attempts with a gun are fatal. “ (Brady Campaign) There are a number of reasons why suicide occurs. Stress is the number one cause among our youth, bullies, peer pressure, depression, and abuse. 41,100 people committed suicide in the United States in 2013. Our young teens today does not take time to look deeper into there problem and to seek out a better solution. They are looking for a quick fix but not realizing once the trigger is pulled the result is final with no turning back. Most people who has attempted suicide is more likely to try a second attempt and most have an underlying mental illness. There is many warming that someone may be in a suicide crisis. We most learn how to see things through their eyes. No matter what one is facing in life or the difficult that lie ahead of them Nothing is worth taken your own
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.
According to WHO, suicide is the second leading cause of death for 15 - 24 year olds. . It is disturbing to notice that after the deaths caused by car accident, suicide follows. It is a terrifying act which shows the helplessness of the individual and he might have an extreme senses of guilt while conducting the act. Why would an individual come to this drastic solution?
At the end of the day many people commit suicide because they feel empty and cannot move
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.
In thes sucumstances suicide is inevitable .Most would rather just end it for them self insted of of waiting for life to end them. No one should ever have to deal with knowing their own fate and not be able to change
“Research shows that teen depression is on the rise and suicide is always a risk during the course of a major depressive episode.” (Katie Hurley, LCSW). Signs of depression/suicidal thoughts vary in reason because there are many reasons as to why teens have those thoughts. For example, a teen can be thinking of suicide because of the overwhelming feeling of stress, feeling of emptiness or loneliness. “About 45 percent of all suicides had symptoms of either depression or alcoholism” (Gale Group, 2018). Suicide can come from drug abuse but the thought of taking away a life could also come from depression. There are many known causes of depression such as family issues. This feeling can lead to taking their own life because they may feel like they don’t want to go through what they are going through and that they do not want to live any
Suicides are very emotionally painful for everyone involved and often leave the family with a triple burden. First, the family has grief for their loss. Secondly, the family often feels anger or rage since the death of their loved one was completely preventable. And finally, families often feel guilt because they believe they might have been able to prevent the death. People who have major psychiatric disorders, prior attempts, difficulties of sexual identity, family troubles or crisis, current or prior alcohol or drug abuse, or depression are more likely to commit suicide, and suicide and depression are
There are countless causes that can lead to suicide. Some believe that suicide is caused by psychological factors such as personality and emotions. Others, such as French sociologist Émile Durkheim, “stress the influence of social and cultural pressures on the individual” (“Suicide”). Some of those factors are mental disorders, losing a parent or spouse, physical illness, etc. The overpowering of stress of external forces sometimes pushes people to do things that they wouldn’t do.
The number of suicides have increased sharply over the years because people feel hopeless. Individuals who come to the decision to take their life may feel hopeless.
There are many reasons to why people commit suicide. They can be mentally ill. As in, they have too many negative thought running through their head. They can sometimes feel like burdens. They could feel like they are not needed in this world. They could also need an escape from reality. There could be some serious stuff going on in their lives that some people do not understand. “Suicide is an important public health problem in many countries, and is a leading cause of deaths amongst teenagers and young adults.” Merino, Noël. Assisted Suicide. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2012. Print.
Drugs and alcohol can also be one the causes of suicide as many addicts can’t seem to satisfy their families or the people that they love because they put their addictions first, overdoses are also another possibility for them to end their lives. For some, a cause is the difficulty of social integration, mental disorders or physical disabilities. The factors of social and psychological isolation are extremely important in the act of suicide.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. "(The Myth of Sisyphus). This is a philosophical statement to some others as with Camus see this a true and evident problem. So many will turn this into a argument for which no side could win. The argument cannot be won by many because they simply will not take their own selves out of the equation. One of the top reasons a person is said to want to die is that the individual has a philosophical desire to die. This desire can be broke down into different patterns or traits the person holds deep inside themselves, also there could be outside factors influencing this. Doctor Alex Lickerman of the University of Chicago states, "These people aren’t depressed, psychotic, maudlin, or crying out for help. They’re trying to take control of their destiny and alleviate their own suffering, which usually can only be done in death."( reasons why people comment suicide). These people are not clinically depressed, they are making the choice to take control of their own destiny. Taking control of one's own destiny or life is not something that is looked down upon in the normal everyday society. In today's world it is extremely important that people be themselves and with so many sub-cultures for the people of this world to fall into people do not want to conform to everyday society. Suicide is considered wrong to some