Why Do People Commit Suicide?

Suicide is a very tricky subject because many people do not agree with one certain reason why someone would want to kill him or herself. In the textbook Evolutionary Psychology: New Science of the Mind written by David Buss (2012) suicide is explained through an evolutionary theory. This theory of suicide, which was developed by Denys de Catanzaro claims that a person resorts to suicide when they cannot contribute to their own inclusive fitness (Buss, 2012). This theory of suicide does a great job at explaining suicide through an evolutionary standpoint and many people may not agree with it.

Have you ever gotten bullied by a school mate? Or have you ever witnessed someone getting bullied and you did nothing? While some would say, being bullied isn’t a big deal but in reality it is because it makes you feel some type of way and sometimes makes you want to harm yourself.

When someone is being bullied, they are likely to face with a series of challenges, which it causes social, physical, and health problems.

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?

One reason people commit suicide is that they are depressed. Depression is the feeling of severe dejection. It causes severe symptoms that affect how you feel, think, and handle activities, such as sleeping, eating, and working. (NH) Many who are considering suicide suffer from depression (Highbeam). For example a six year old girl committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. She was depressed because her mom had died from an illness. She couldn’t face a life without her.

Abuse can play a major part in suicide, too. Abuse is when someone gets treated poorly. Although, there are six types of abuse. There is also drug and alcohol abuse, in which someone uses drugs or alcohol to take away the pain. Abuse can cause PTSD, “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” which can cause a person to become depressed because of the memories and constant reminders. Suicidal behaviors and/or actions can occur after being abused.

In addition, mental health disorders can lead to suicide. Suicide is a horribly tragic act that can be prevented. Suicide is usually caused by severe depression, a feeling of hopelessness. This severe depression can be caused by a tragic life event such as losing a job or divorce. People can also be predisposed to depression. People’s brains who suffer from depression simply cannot produce enough neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which are responsible for making you happy. Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. More people die from suicide than hypertension, abnormally high blood pressure, and Parkinson’s disease. The rate in which this is happening is rising yearly. In recent years suicide rates have taken a steep rise in prevalence. Many people struggling with depression feel as though they don’t have real issues compared to other people, or that people will judge them seeking help for feeling sad. People who have been directly affected by suicide will tell you that it is not silly to seek help if you are feeling sad. Suffers sometimes feel so depressed that they cannot get out of bed. It can be debilitating. Uneducated individuals do not understand this, and will tell a sick person to “just get out of bed”, or “we all have issues too, deal with it and get on with life like the rest of us”.

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.

Victims who are bullied might also make their grades suffer and they may miss or drop out of school. Some children may even become aggressive and violent. They

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.

Individuals that are involved in committing suicides could be depressed from different situations when I come to the characteristics (Austin, & Unkovic, 1977). When it comes to suicide there are many different characteristics of a person that has committed suicide (Austin, & Unkovic, 1977). The individuals may have not been happy with the things that are going on in their lives. If a person is not happy then it could be a possibility that they are going to do some type of harm to themselves (Austin, & Unkovic, 1977). A person that commits suicide feels that there is nothing else that they can do beside harm themselves (Austin, & Unkovic, 1977). Individuals that commit suicide think that they have come to the end of their road and they do not have any support of any kind. A person that feels like they are alone can cause them to have these certain feeling (Austin, & Unkovic, 1977).

Suicide is something that has been a plague on society for some time now, and a tragic plague at that. To the normal man or woman, suicide is a horrific act. However, to many men and women thinking irrationally, suicide is simply an easy way out. In this sense, suicide turns from a terrible act from the outside view, into an actual pain reliever to the suicide committer himself. Technically, one could argue that suicide is actually doing some good to the person who ends their life. James Boone, in his article in the Los Angeles Times, outlined the top three reasons that a conference at the Irvine Hilton came up with on why teen suicide occurs. The first was “Youths with low self-esteem,” the second was “Youths who are depressed,” and the third

Examples of these mental disorders are depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder. Teens who have mental disorders are more likely to commit suicide than those without mental disorders. A good example of this would be a teen who has been diagnosed with depression and at the same time under a lot of stress from school and family. Not only this teen is already facing a lot of stress, but the mental disorder amplifies these stresses, making it more overwhelming for this teen. This also applies to some few people who, not only kill themselves, but also take away the lives of innocent people, such as shooters on campus. A lot of teens who have mental disorders commit suicide because of the unbearable pain, and what they are going through is just too much for them to handle. The pain is too much that merely committing suicide is not enough, that they even have to involve other people who has nothing to do with them. These disorders are treatable and yet a lot of them do not seek treatments. The reason for that might be because many of them are not aware that they have mental disorders, or simply because they do not have the money to pay for the medications to manage their