Suicide

Epidemic of Adolescent Suicides Suicide is one of the most saddening topics to discuss. As a whole, suicide is awful. However, the population that I find the most concerning is adolescents. Sadly, suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents. With an influx of bullying and society’s ideals of perfection, there is no wonder how a depressed teen’s fixation on suicide is fed. In order to investigate the topic, I read three peer reviewed journals discussing teen suicide. All of…

Regarding Suicide in the Geriatric Populous The act of taking one’s own life is typically referred to as suicide, and such an act is not strictly restricted to any one age group. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Suicide remains the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, with an average mean of 42,773 suicides occurring each year across all ages, and among this gathered data numerous deaths go unaccounted for, especially among the elderly population. This…

Suicide in prison has become a rising problem in the world today. Inmates have a higher suicide rate then the general population of people this day in age. Many things can contribute to this factor. Mental health issues, mental illness, depression and much more. They have programs in prisons that can help aid an individual though depression and suicidal thoughts. But some will either refuse help, or won’t acknowledge that they need it. Mental health is a leading issue to suicide in prison. A…

The loss due to suicide leaves behind a void and loneliness in the hearts of friends, parents, caretakers, teachers and anyone who know the victims at some time in their life. The ongoing ache in the hearts of their families, spouse and loved one can be prolonged for a limitless period. The deaths affect everyone’s feeling. The prolonged pain could be felt by someone close. The deep pain hardly goes off, but the grief can come in waves until someone feels like there’s no way forward and no way…

“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”. (Charles Caleb Colton) First, let’s define what suicide is. Suicide is the act of taking one’s life on purpose. Suicidal behavior is any action that could cause a person to die, such as taking a drug overdose or cashing a car on purpose. Most suicide attempts do not result in death. Many of these attempts are…

Assisted suicide or euthanasia is when a doctor knowingly and intentionally provides a person with the knowledge or means required to commit suicide. This includes prescribing such lethal doses or supplying the drugs necessary for suicide. Doctor Jack Kevorkian assisted many people in suicide and had to serve jail time. Many people feel as if this should be legalized and that patients should have a third option when facing death. Any physician willing to aid in suicide is wrong and should always…

Q6: Suicide is selfish I think suicide seems selfish because it leaves behind survivors whose world is forever changed and who must grieve the loss of a loved one. Yet, if we look at the letter written by the man who died by suicide in week two: he believed his family would be better, without him. He thought they would go on to live full and healthy lives, full of love and happiness. His act of suicide was not selfish, in his mind. So, I think the answer to this question lies within the eye…

Physician-assisted suicide should be legalized for those with a condition that is causing them suffering or cannot be treated. This practice is illegal in most countries due to the overwhelming misunderstanding on the idea and the odd obsession with forcing people to survive against their will. Hopefully through educating the public on what assisted suicide is, what conditions meet the requirements for assisted suicide, and how the procedure actually goes, the practice will be legalized and help…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that in 2011, more than 9,000 older adults died by suicide. Although the rate of suicide for women typically declines in older age, it increases with age among men. (Greenlee and Hyde, 2014) Studies have been done to identify suicide risk factors based on psychological autopsies of older adults who died by suicide. These include psychiatric illness (especially depression); social isolation; functional impairment; physical illness;…

Assisted Suicide There is a debate about everything really, but lately there has been a large debate on assisted suicide. Assisted suicide is the suicide of a suffering patient with a terminal illness caused by taking lethal drugs prescribed by a doctor. Now as brutal as this may seem there are definitely two sides to this, you just have to look a bit deeper. I have been researching assisted suicide for a while and there are two sides indeed. There is the side saying that it is bad, and that it…