Argumentative Essay: The Battle Between Two Suicide

The Battle Between Two: Suicide Most people can hardly imagine the pain and suffering that people with mental illnesses go through during their last, dying breath. Suicide is the act of killing one’s self not for attention or for glory but because they cannot take the pain anymore. Over one million people die by suicide worldwide each year, therefore, the global suicide rate is 16 per 100,000 populations (“International Suicide Statistics” 1). Some people believe that suicide is committed by people who are weak or attentions seeking, however, most people deal with a traumatic experience in their life, suffer from mental disorders, social alienation, or were prescribed the wrong dose of pills. Controversy about suicide has been raging since …show more content…
Conversely, there has not been a lot of research done on the brain for people struggling with mental disorders to avert future suicides. Depression is the top risk factor of committed suicides followed by other mental disorders (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders) (Khan 4). Startling, people know mental disorders are the leading cause of suicide but people do not have a reliable solution. People with depression or any other mental disorder have a chemical imbalance. On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world 1.8% of worldwide deaths are suicides, therefore, 1.62% of worldwide suicide deaths are people with mental illness at the time of their death (“International Suicide Statistics” 2). One in five Americans suffer from a mental illness each year (Khan 8). If we help people struggling with mental disorders, suicides will decrease up to …show more content…
However, people have not considered innovative ways to prevent suicide deaths. People need to do more research on brains to discover solutions for mental disorders. Nowadays the only thing people do when they have a mental issue is go to the hospital and the doctor prescribes them ‘normal’ pills. Also no one monitors their pills. What if they stop taking them, what if they overdose, what if? Although, it would be ineffective if a person holds onto another person pills and gives them one at a set schedule. In fact, “Regrettably, drug poisoning is one of the least effective methods of suicide, which means that only around 2½% of attempted suicides by drug poisoning are successful. That's odds of around 40 to 1 against succeeding” (“Common Causes…” 6). Doctors need to invent a creative way to make sure their patients are getting the right amount of their