Suicide has a distressing emotional impact on society as a whole; present family members and friends in particular. The deliberate, unexpected, and aggressive way of the young death always makes others feel discarded, weak, and redundant. A family member or friend may have the additional burden of finding out the body of the suicide victim. Parents often undergo inflated feelings of disgrace, guilt and responsibility. More teenagers and young adults died of suicide than from heart disease, cancer, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease …show more content…
Gender differences affect the means teens use to commit suicide. Girls, who are about twice as likely to commit suicide as boys, tend to overdose on drugs or cut themselves. Boys, who commit suicide more often than girls, use firearms, hanging, or jumping more frequently. They tend to choose more sudden and lethal methods. Boys are three or four times more likely to succeed in their attempts than