Suicide And Suicide Prevention

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According to The World Held Organization website stated that there are 800,000 people die by suicide in the world and the number attempt suicide is uncountable (WHO, 2015). In the U.S, it is estimated that the people die by suicide up to 41,000 which more than twice as the death cause of homicide (NIMH, 2015), about twice as much as murder (Messenger, 2015). In 2012, it was in the second range of the world cause the death at 15 to 29 years old , most of the death by suicide caused not only the suffer to “their family, communities and entire countries” but also “causes the long-last effect on the people left behind” (WHO, 2015). “Suicide is a major public health concern” (NIMH, 2015) and “is a serious public health problem” but it doesn’t mean …show more content…
There are a lot of people attempt to suicide often give their signals before they killed themselves (Smith, et., 2015). Even though it is very difficult to recognize exactly how people intent to suicide before them action, learning about the warning signs from completed suicide people is the best way to get the attempt suicide people (Caruso, 2015). Connecting with the risk factors above is common alert in below actions: “talking or writing about death or suicide” (Peterson, 2014): “any talk about suicide, dying, violent, or self-harm, such as “I wish I hadn’t been born”, “if I see you again…” and “I’d be better off dead”, “writing a poems or stories about death” (Smith, et.,2015), concern about the action to attempt to find the dangerous objects such as gun (Kahn, 2012), “firearms, pills, knives” or any things get in high risk of suicide (Peterson, 2014). Suicide attempt people also tend to isolate from or “unusual or unexpected saying goodbye” to everyone, especially, their closed friendship or relatives. In addition, they become violent or want to revenge someone who hurt them. They also show their attitude of giving up the future such as “the helplessness, purposelessness, or being in trapped” because they believed that thing can’t get better no matter what to do (Smith, et., 2015). Pay attention to the strange action of a person who suddenly wants to transfer all of their important property to the others (Peterson, 2014). A certain actions of destroy themselves (Kahn) included “drug, alcohol abuse, careless in driving or desire to get unsafe sex” (Smith, et., 2015). Instantaneous become “quiet, happy, joyful of life”, or say hopeful talk to others after the extended duration of anguish. In addition, a particular warning sign is occurred in a certain age in society, teenager use to show their obsession about current broken relationship. Adult warning signs intend to destroy

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