Suicide: Why?

STOP TEEN SUICIDES!!!!!

Do some people believe that  the Suicide Hot-lines and suicide.com Help people commit suicide, or do they try to prevent it? I don’t believe that going to something like that is as good as an idea as some might say. There are reasons to why people are suicidal. We need to figure out what the reason for teens to commit suicide is, and why it’s such a high rate.

Do Teens commit suicide, because of home life, or peer pressure, or because there is seriously something mentally wrong with them? How many Suicides are there actually per year you ask? Well, I think that I can answer that a little bit.

1. 1.4% of deaths in the US are suicides.

2. In 2005 more than 32,000 people committed suicide, leading to almost 89 deaths a day. which would be equivilant to 1 suicide every 16 minutes.

3. Some Deaths were drug over-doses or alcohol poisening.

• 33.3% Alcholo poisening in 13 states.

• 16.4% were from Opiates.

• 9.4% was cocaine.

• 3.9 for Amphetamines.

When we talk about suicide, we wonder why it is that people do it, and at what age is it most likely done at. Suicide can be in any age group, male or female, gay or straight, religious or not, or ethnic groups. Here’s a few thinks about age group and sex gendered suicides.

1. Ages 15-24 there is 1 suicide for ever 100-200 suicidal attempts.

2. Ages 65 and older there is 1 suicide for every 4 attempts. (2002)

3. 16.9% of high school students said they were seriously considering taking their lives.

4. Among Indians Suicide between 15-35 is the second most highest cause of death.

5. In 2006 Hispanic or Latino females 9-12 had a higher percentage of suicidal attempts.

6. Black and whites, had a lower percentage of suicidal attempts.

Suicide is a serious thing, and when people decide they wanna go ahead and take their life, they dont think about others. They randomly give prized possessions away, start in on drugs, violence and other things.  Suicides are slowly getting higher every year with www.vampirefreaks.com and www.suicide.com and sites like those. Suicide is something people take lightly. You may think there is nothing wrong with that person, but deep down inside, you dont know what is really going on.

So please, think of the teens going through this, and try to find ways to help. Like creating sites or visiting sites about troubled teens and how to help them.

As a person who tried to commit suicide, I know a lot about the subject, and when someone is doing self-inflicting harm to themselves, a parent or gaurdian honestly doesn’t know what to do or how to help. My mother pushed it off sooo long, until finally she freaked, and it got to the point it did.

So just remember, if you are a parent who is not as concerned with a childs life as you should be, you should be keeping tabs on websites, and things that kids might say and do and write down.

STOP TEEN SUICIDES!!!!