Essay On Why People Commit Suicide

In this article the author attempts to answer why people commit suicide by using her knowledge of psychology and preventive medicine. Like the other article state suicide is increasing in frequency within the United States. The people who are shown to be most at risk are white men, women and teenagers, but why is this the case? According to the CDC “America loses approximately 100 Americans every 24 hours from suicide,” with ages 18 to 24 being the largest group committing suicide. With the connotation that the millennial generation being lazy and entitled, most employers don’t want to employ them and the older generations don’t feel any sympathy for their hardships. The technology is also to blame for the increase in suicides in America. Long ago bullying used to be face to face, however cyberbully has become increasingly popular as a mean to belittle one’s fellow peers. It is much more difficult to …show more content…
The authors look into this subject by conducting an experiment looking into students in college and were not diagnosed with any mental illness before the experiment took place. The experiments used questionnaires and the participants’ answers to evaluate their likeliness to commit suicide. The authors are in the article are extremely credible because they have a university to back them up and use science to prove their hypothesis. They found that the many stresses of life factor into college students taking their life, those including: the responsibility of having children, searching or having a job, and dealing with the major debt accumulating from college. They also found that orphans that grew up without their parents have a much higher suicide rate. This is because they were not able to foster and have secure relationships with their parents. Poor income is also a common factor in college students as well as a major factor for those who are an extreme high risk of committing