The Rise Of Suicide

Attempting suicide is an epidemic in the United States; especially when 41% of transgender individuals have attempted suicide compared 1.6% of the general population (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Due to this, the question of whether or not transgender youth have a harder, more straining adolescence than their cisgender counterparts rises. Although adolescence can be hard on everyone, experiences such as a school environment, puberty, laws that guarantee protection, family and social acceptance of transgender youth are harder than those of their cisgender counterparts (harder does not necessarily mean correlate with strenuous, the use of harder is aiming more towards different, costly, and possibly more confusing). The revolution for transgender lives is just beginning, change is happening. But in order for change to occur, adequate information on the material needs to be discussed and terminology must be defined and questions must be answered. Questions such as: what do the terms transgender and cisgender actually mean? Why is it important to know the difference between the two terms? What is the difference between transsexual and transgender?

As I was reading through the different views on the causes of suicide, I thought that the sociocultural view made most sense for me. It made sense due to the claim that a person’s connections with social groups, religions, and communities can determine suicide probability (Comer, 2014). I imagine a sliding spectrum where people who are very invested in everything around them are on one end and on the other are people who don’t care about society. The two ends are the high suicide probability areas. Altruistic suicides where lives are sacrificed would fall on the invested end of the spectrum while the egoistic suicides which society has no control over a person and anomic suicides where a person’s social environment fails to provide structure

Imagine, the entire province of New Brunswick committing suicide. That is approximately how many people take their own lives over the course of a year. Suicide: a word that has become mum in our society for fear of offence. However, looking at it in a sociological view proves it less personal for many. Suicide is a multi-faceted, prevalent issue engulfing and affecting many today.

Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess different sociological explanations of suicide. (21 marks)

Suicide is the act of killing yourself. It is the 11th leading cause of death in America (CDC 2009). I have never had any intentions on committing suicide and I never really understood why people commit suicide that’s why I chose this topic to help me understand what problems people go through that makes them do such a thing. Sociology is the study of social behavior and the culture of humans. There are numerous reasons like financial stress, family problems or mental health disorders that lead to suicide. The number one cause of suicide is untreated depression. The issues that were just listed are some social conditions from society that results in a suicidal

In 2014, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH, 2015), there were twice as many suicides than there were homicides. Suicidal ideation (SI), defined as an individual thinking about, considering, or planning their suicide, is established before the act of committing suicide. Research suggests that adverse childhood experiences (CDC, 2015) will put an individual at risk for developing a mental illness that could result in SI and suicide attempt (SA). It is important for the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) to recognize the signs of SI and SA while assessing their client.

Suicide is now an international epidemic, and students are under constant surveillance at home and school. Handlers are called when there is a chance that a teenager has caught the epidemic and the handlers take them to The Program. In The Program the patient stays six weeks or longer and all the memories that are important that may have caused depression are stolen from his or her memory, and go back to the real world with the only few memories they’ve allow them to keep. There are so many missing memories and broken puzzle pieces in their lives. It begins when, two years ago when Sloan was fifteen her brother, Brady committed suicide down by the river. Now seventeen Sloan’s best friend Lacey was put in The Program for six weeks after being

Bullies and bystanders Did you know bystanders gaze at bulling take place and do nothing about it? Bystanders also encourage bulling in different ways. Bystanders are worse than bullies. They let the bully feel good, they don’t care about the victim and might just be trying to fit in.

When people see others getting bullied some go to their help, but others just watch. Running to the defense of someone or defending yourself is an act of justifiable force. I been bullied before and I know that it’s no laughing matter. I even helped some people getting bullied even though those people getting bullied were also bullying others I still helped them because it was the right thing to do. If people could learn to

In conclusion, being a bystander is much worse than a bully because you have to deal with the guilt, You'll get in trouble either way, and you encourage the bullies to do more by sitting by and letting it happen or laughing and cheering the bully on. You let the victim suffer bulling, every seven minutes a child Is bullied all around the world. we can stop bullying if you just stand up. Don’t be a bystander be a

Durkheim believed that the suicide rate was a social fact; he found that social forces such as social integration, which refers to “an attachment to social groups” and social regulation, which refers to the “control of individual desires by group norms” (Fulcher and Scott, 2007, p.37) are factors external to the individual and determine levels of suicide in society. Durkheim found that suicide resulted from an imbalance of these two forces and developed a classification system. It was observed (Giddens, 2006, p.15) that egotistic suicides are common in social groups that lack sufficient integration, resulting in weaker social ties. For example lower suicide rates in times of social crisis such as war are attributed to higher social integration

To begin with the bully is worse than the bystander because without a bully there wouldn't have to be a bystander. According to, "dictionary.com," "a bully is a blustering, quarrelsome, bearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people." If the bully did not start to hurt someone than the bystander would not have to get in trouble for just setting there an watching. If there was no bystander then the bully might stop because there would be no one to encourage them to keep bullying the victim. The bystander is not the one in this situation who is physically or mentally messing with the victim. Bullies are the people who actually mess with the victim and cause

According to pinterest.com," pulling someone down will never help you reach the top." According to Source 1, Students might be bullied because the bully might look up to them. They want the victim's life so they hurt them. Students might become a bully because they want other kids to know how it feels to be bullied. They could have abos going on at their house. Bullying is extremely worse than being a bystander because the risks that come with it, they feel extreme guilt if the victim commits suicide, family matters to a bully, and they have to face consequences.

Worst of all, the bystander can suffer consequences even if they didn't start it. According to Dustin O'field VP of BMS bystanders no consequences unless they join in. But, if they do the first time they get a 1 day suspension. When bystanders are caught joining in the second time they get a 10 day suspension. For their third and last offense they get a 10 day suspension and are up for expulsion! This is very bad for them and their future. So, if you see a bully don't join

Émile Durkheim in his book “Suicide” not only described different several distinct sociological profiles of suicide, but also made a variety of inductions based on his findings. He conducted various studies in Western Europe, used available statistics and data from existing research to argue for the hypotheses. A number of the conclusions may fit certain societies in Europe, or even the United States, as the work of Durkheim centred around the suicide rates among Protestants and Catholics in Europe (predominantly, the different cantons in Switzerland). Despite the drawbacks, Durkheim’s classic sociological study is to this day used by various scholars and media, as a basis for discussing the topic of suicide. Some of the major deductions that Émile Durkheim made (besides describing various suicide types) are: