American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The Department of Veterans Affairs, and The National Suicide Prevention Hotline back a program which is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Services, called the Veterans Crisis Line. This program makes it, so that by calling or texting a number, a veteran in need can have instant professional help, in their…

Suicide and Social Media Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States, while being the third among adolescents aged 15-24 (AFSP, n.d.). Along with the increase of social media usage, prevalence rates of suicide among teens continue to rise as well (Luxton, 2014). With the increase in both suicide and social media usage, millions of people are beginning to use sites such as Facebook to further enhance their grieving process. This increase allows people to provide their…

Suicide claims the lives of 38,000 Americans a year. This is more than car accidents, prostate cancer or homicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Szabo, 3). All of these deaths could of been prevented with the right programs in place. Studies have found that those affected by a mental illness will die up to…

several headlines. Many want to compare the movie to current events with police brutality or even the Blue Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter Movements. However, few are reporting on behalf of the real problem with the movie: the glorification of suicide. Although Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri…

Transgender youth are more likely to consider suicide than their heterosexual peers due to unequal treatment they face in health care, school, and at home. Numerous studies have shown a larger percentage of depression among transgender teenagers than among heterosexual teenagers. While depression is the leading cause of suicidal thoughts for teens living in the United States, the struggle with depression that many teenagers go through is magnified when they struggle with sexual identity or…

point when individuals consider suicide, they consider somebody taking their life away deliberately or in other word, killing themselves. Suicide is a memorable word that can change the way individuals view things in life. It is an imagined that conveys a teen to the point of self-homicide. It is an occasion where a youthful one feels distress and pain just before pulling the trigger or hang themselves. Many of those who have thought about suicide or have committed suicide have done so because…

fire is guilty of suicide?” This quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau notes very clearly that suicide may be justifiable in certain situation, but society generally doesn’t define this type of act as suicide because of the stigma associated with the word itself. Suicide can be more than just killing oneself over emotional distress, and can include honorable suicide, and euthanasia which all have farther reaching implications especially when analyzed throughout history. The word suicide comes from…

Depression leads to suicide if left untreated and undiagnosed. Suicide is an attempt on one’s own life. One of the highest causes of death in the United States is suicide, displayed in a range of ages starting from very young to later in life (Connors, P. G. 2007). Causes of suicide include depression, which makes the two topics so relatable to each other. One generally cannot commit suicide without displaying some degree of depression (National Institution of Mental Health n.d.). Suicide and…

Is Durkheim Induitable? A Look Into Modern Suicide Data Emile Durkheim speaks with conviction, like a man self assured that his facts are correct and confident in his analysis, a man who never questioned himself. Modern scholar do not look at him with such assured eyes. From the fundamental basis of his analysis to the sources of his information, everything about Durkheim’s work has been questioned. Notably, there is serious debate as to whether or not the facts he based his data on have passed…

firearm(s) that they own at least once. This can be considered recreational shooting. There is slightly more recreational shooters than hunters, “Estimates range from 20 million to more than 40 million annual participants” (National Shooting Sports Foundation). Of these shooters, 65 percent are shooting rifles, 64.7 are handguns, 48.1 are shotguns, and 18.5 percent are muzzleloaders. Notice that the most popular choice of weapon is a rifle. A rifle is defined as “A weapon designed or redesigned,…