Suicide In High School

We do not like to talk about topics like suicide, and we try to make ourselves believe that it is not an important issue to discuss in the classroom. However, suicide is becoming more and more common. It possible that you have a connect to a person that committed suicide good or bad. Also, you could know a person that is depressed and has suicidal thoughts, and you might not even know it. In teenagers, it is very common to think about suicide at least once in your whole high school career, which is why schools need to educate students on the proper ways to identify and deal with a person that is depressed or thinking about suicide. In the book, Thirteen Reasons Why, it talks about what could cause a person to get depressed, what is going through …show more content…
At the start of the story, Clay returns home from school to see a package on his bed, which contained seven tapes with instructions to pass on the tapes once you have finished listening to the tapes. Then if anyone decides not to send tapes to the next person, then there would be a second set of tapes released publicly. In the book, it talked about how Justin Foley was Hannah’s first kiss, and he later bragged to his friends that more than just kissing had happened in the park. Which, then caused Hannah to be considered a slut in school, just because of what Justin said about Hannah. Later in the book it refers to Justin again, saying that he allowed a guy to enter a room with an unconscious girl, which that guy ended up raping the girl. In the tapes, Hannah also provides the locations of these places on a map that each person on the tapes had found in their lockers before they received the tapes, so Clay then goes to Tony’s house because he does not have a portable tape player while he knows that Tony has one. Where he finds Tony and his dad working on a car, and Clay ended up stealing Tony’s portable walkman out of Tony’s car. The second person the book talks about is Alex,