Teen suicide

Running Head : Teen Suicide

Teen Suicide

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TEEN SUICIDE

Introduction

No person on this earth , not mother or father , or brother or sister or friend , is closer to us than ourselves . We are far too special for anyone else to fully feel exactly what we feel as individuals , to wholly understand us . Our thoughts are our thoughts , our heartbeats and breathing , the rhythms that keep us alive , our secrets , belong to each one of us alone

. No one can ever really monitor us , no matter how empathetic they may be , no matter how hard they try with searching sensitive questions , with touches and other physical intimacies of love even with the most elegant of diagnostic instruments that modern science can contrive

At times , in the dull days and the dark nights , we suddenly lose that special , exclusive contact with ourselves . We cannot understand ourselves any longer . We feel lonely , sad , hopeless , perhaps guilty and helpless . We wish to die

What is Suicide and How Teens are being addicted to it

Suicide , fortunately , is a rare occurrence , and most of us survive those despairing times . But rare does not mean never . It means only that compared to the larger number of people who do not kill themselves , or try to , there are but a few who do . But those "few " who do die by their own hand - twenty-eight thousand , young and old , in the United States alone every year - are as much a matter of grave concern to us as five hundred thousand or more would be , for it involves loss of human lives

Given the amount of space devoted to it today in our newss and magazines , and the time given to it on television , it seems suicide is with us every day . Indeed , suicide is with us every day - about every hour and a half someone kills himself or herself , and no one is sure just how many try during that same time span . We read and hear of "suicide epidemics " among teenagers in affluent suburbs of New York City , Chicago , and Dallas and we have grown accustomed to hearing the grim statistics showing that the suicide rate among teens has more than tripled during the last twenty-five years . Between five thousand and ten thousand young people kill themselves every year in our country , making suicide the second leading cause of death among adolescents , after accidents another six hundred thousand try to kill themselves . We read more and more today , of how some people have come to accept suicide in general . There are , for instance , heated discussions over whether the elderly and the hopelessly ill ought to be allowed to take their own lives , or be helped to do so . Students at Brown University voted on a proposal to urge that the university health service stockpile suicide pills for use in case of a nuclear war . In India after at least ten people had already burned...