The Issue Of Suicide And Suicide

According to the World Health Organization, “Suicide has surpassed homicide to become the second leading cause of death among ten to twenty-nine-year-olds; in 2012, suicide claimed the lives of more than five-thousand people within this age bracket” (Onieal 14). Five-thousand young people felt that the weight of the problems they were faced with was too much to handle, and suicide was the only solution. As a teen who struggled with clinical depression and anxiety, this is an issue that is very real to me. So many of these suicides could have been prevented if we were more aware of how many teens are struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses, and offered our support and strength to those who feel too weak to hold on any longer.

Despite the lack of research done by sociologists on the topic of suicide, little is known about what societies perspective of it. In this research paper, the sociological aspects of suicide are going to be brought up. The way suicide deals with deviance and how a particular Sociologist studied different theories. The analyzation of four journal articles that are cited back up my answer in my research paper. My research question is, Does the Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why impact societies viewpoint on the sociological issues of suicide? Providing evidence to prove this true through the general thoughts and knowledge I have cumulated in Introduction in Sociology. Oddly enough there is not much research in the general category of suicide in sociology

It is my responsibility to tell the truth to my best friend as she is going to start a new life and she does not know her partner is cheating on her. It is her big day and I want to see her happy the whole life but she does not know what is going to happen in the upcoming days. This is my personal view that I should make them tell the truth before they get marriage and not to hide anything from each other about their life as they are going to spend their whole life together.

When people hear the word “suicide” they automatically think of something gloomy and something that is shameful. But assisted suicide is different, it is more like helping someone make a choice. The choice is does a person want to suffer for as long as possible or does a person want to have a choice to end their life on their own terms. Assisted suicide is a person with an incurable disease who wants to die. It is a use of lethal drugs provided by a doctor. It is more about what the person in this situation wants than what the government thinks. There are so many different aspects that go into this global issue but this essay is going to focus on government involvement, religion, and legalizing suicide. It is not about the right to die but

The article “Girls Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies” by Lizette Alvarez explains that different online and phone applications such as Kik Messages, Voxer, and ask.fm have been used as a source for cyberbullying, and this intense cyberbullying has caused people to cut themselves, loose their self esteem, and sometimes commit suicide. This one article talks specifically about Rebecca Norman, a twelve year old who committed suicide. Many things were done to help prevent it including changing her cell phone number, pulling her out of school, hospitalizing her, and getting her counseling. It was all working, and she was starting to feel normal until she downloaded Kik Messages, Voxer , and ask.fm. That’s when the bullying started

This standpoint deals with the ever-present question of: is suicide wrong? According to Szasz, suicide is ethically wrong because “even if a person does not value his own life, Western society does value everyone’s life” (168). There are three different ways to categorize suicide: successful suicide, attempted (or threatened) suicide, and assisted suicide (Szasz 165). In general, successful suicide is a legitimate expression of an individual’s desire for control over his own death, “whereas unsuccessful suicide is generally an expression of an individual’s desire for more control over others” (Szasz 166). The ethical aspect focuses on the assisted suicide as it relates to

Suicide is a subject that has provoked ethical, moral, spiritual, and social deliberations and examination (Harris & Hawton, 2005). Civilization has fought with the notion of suicide as well as attempting to make coherent logic of the behaviors that proceed (Harris & Hawton, 2005). In managing such a multifaceted individual and social subject, therapists may come across copious ethical trials which must be resolved in order to be operative specialists (Harris & Hawton, 2005).

Every year about 4,400 innocent people take their life for unnecessary reasons. (Elias 5,3) Whether it is due to personal problems, bullying or feeling not wanted. Although the teen suicide rates have not significantly increased or decreased within the last several decades (Elias 1,2)We want loved ones, class mates or friends still here with us to experience a life. But instead, there always has to be ruthless people in this world. Also some selfish people who just care about themselves and never see or ask how anyone else is. Someone whose life is already ruined tries to talk or plan about suicide to another person to try to get their life over with, so the messed up person who has a ruined life does not have to worry about anyone else who has such a good life ahead of them. (Alison 5,6)Teen suicide is an important issue because it threatens so many lives that have great potential.

Day to day, teens suffer from peer pressure, problem from home, and stress from academics. Despise their status in the environment, majority of high school students refrain from acknowledging the presence of their reality. The problem in most situations in that students feel shut in, trapped in a never ending misery. How do they cope? What are their ways of dealing? Most students live in denial. Others have friends to confide in. For the devastating part, most students are not as open to these ideas and it leaves them with this alternative: suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause in teens the ages 14 to 19 within rural underserved areas. Suicidal ideation (SI), suicidal thoughts, were surveyed in over 12 high schools and it was found that in the past year, thoughts of (SI) were not shared with peers or even adults in the pursuit of receiving help or support (Pisani, 2012). Because a student spends most of their day at school, it is ideal for schools to provide realistic opportunities and school-based programs to assist with the suicide among the youth. The Surviving the Teens Suicide Prevention and Depression Awareness Program designed four 50 minute session or each high school student. This presented information in regards to factual information about depression, suicidal warning signs, suicidal risk factors and myths associated with suicide (King, 2010). The program provide coping strategies for everyday life, referral sources if feeling suicidal, and how to recognize

Bulling Need’s To Stop!! Bulling is a big issue. People are commenting suicide over it.

Craig gets admitted into the hospital and calls his parents to tell them where he is. When Craig explains to his parents that he was suicidal they were hurt and broken. Knowing that their own child wanted to kill himself because he was depressed hurt them. Craig’s mom immediately begins to feel guilty, blaming herself for the situation. When Craig explains that he had called the suicide hotline and came to the hospital to check himself in, his mom says: “This is the bravest thing you’ve ever done”(pg.160). Knowing that her own son wanted to die hurt her a lot, but knowing that he was strong enough to be able to come to the hospital alone proved to her that she raised him the right way. Her initial reaction to Craig’s decision wasn’t disappointment

Euthanasia and assisted suicide is a highly controversial topic because it literally deals with the matters of life and death. Once the procedure is done on a patient, it cannot be undone. In Canada, the issue on this topic has been discussed time and time again. The documentary The Trouble With Dying goes in depth on several patients and medical professionals as well as what their perspective on the subject is. Through this documentary, the audience was able to have an eye -opening experience and piece together their own viewpoint on the matter.

The prominent health issue of suicide is causing much pain and anxiety to Australians from all walks of life. Suicide is closely linked to the serious mental illness depression which in sad cases can drive people to take their own life. This report will show that the prevalence of suicide is higher in the lowly populated rural and remote areas of Australia, when compared to the highly populated urban areas and it will seek to answer why this is the case. There have been a number of initiatives put in place trying to improve the rates of suicide and depression in rural and remote areas. Judd, Cooper, Fraser and Davis (2006) believe that comparative factors such as the closeness of health and wellbeing centres, shared stigmas attached to

Discussing suicide can be a very controversial and thought provoking issue. At first glance, one may just think it’s a very black and white topic, and most would agree that suicide consists of someone voluntarily taking their own life. For most people, they would believe it is wrong, but what about in certain cases where the person that chooses suicide is enduring severe suffering? What is the appropriate view about assisted suicide? Why is teen suicide so prevalent? This book addresses these questions, along with many others. The book “Suicide” gives many different views from many different writers regarding the discussion of suicide in hopes of bringing a new thought and outlook on the topic. (Connors). There are several other discussions in the book, such as suicide bombing, but to focus on a certain aspect of the book I will leave that topic out.

For some teens, striving for perfection has led to harming their own health and wellbeing such as living with depression and suicide. Teenagers today are relying on what they see in ads, T.V., magazines and on the internet for their input on appearances, the way they think not only comes from media sources, but from family and friends.