Teen suicide
Whitney Delk
Professor Spiegel
Argument Research paper
English 1101
9 April 2014 Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem Almost every year, about thirty thousand commit suicide and an even higher number of people try to kill themselves (Gale).This is a touchy subject, but so many people think about harming themselves, but why? There are a lot of reasons why people decide to do this, but what is the main cause? A lot of people think suicide is the right thing to do, but they never take the time to think that suicide is just a permanent solution to a temporary problem. If they just give themselves a few hours or so to calm down, or maybe look into getting help, they should be fine. When someone gets down and feels like they are completely worthless, they may think that they aren’t important to anyone anymore, but in reality they are important to many, many individuals. On that note, teenagers are more prone to attempting suicide. Medicine Net states that “The suicide rate for adolescents ages 15 to 19 was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers”. Although, that is very high for teenagers, they aren’t the only age group to pursue this, other age groups do too, but teenagers are more common to do this. Also, ethnicity and gender are a big part of suicide. American Foundation of Suicide Prevention “Reveals that in 2010 men had a suicide rate 19.9 as women had a rate of 5.2”. So obviously men are way more prone to attempting suicide; also they state that Caucasians are at the highest risk for suicide. The biggest cause of suicide is being bullied, and the most popular and worse type of bullying is cyber bullying. According to Yalda T Uhls “Cyber bullying is defined as electronically mediated behaviors among peers such as making fun of, telling lies, spreading rumors, threats and sharing private information or pictures without permission to do so”. Stop Bullying.gov states that cyber bullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7
Professor Spiegel
Argument Research paper
English 1101
9 April 2014 Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem Almost every year, about thirty thousand commit suicide and an even higher number of people try to kill themselves (Gale).This is a touchy subject, but so many people think about harming themselves, but why? There are a lot of reasons why people decide to do this, but what is the main cause? A lot of people think suicide is the right thing to do, but they never take the time to think that suicide is just a permanent solution to a temporary problem. If they just give themselves a few hours or so to calm down, or maybe look into getting help, they should be fine. When someone gets down and feels like they are completely worthless, they may think that they aren’t important to anyone anymore, but in reality they are important to many, many individuals. On that note, teenagers are more prone to attempting suicide. Medicine Net states that “The suicide rate for adolescents ages 15 to 19 was 8.2 deaths per 100,000 teenagers”. Although, that is very high for teenagers, they aren’t the only age group to pursue this, other age groups do too, but teenagers are more common to do this. Also, ethnicity and gender are a big part of suicide. American Foundation of Suicide Prevention “Reveals that in 2010 men had a suicide rate 19.9 as women had a rate of 5.2”. So obviously men are way more prone to attempting suicide; also they state that Caucasians are at the highest risk for suicide. The biggest cause of suicide is being bullied, and the most popular and worse type of bullying is cyber bullying. According to Yalda T Uhls “Cyber bullying is defined as electronically mediated behaviors among peers such as making fun of, telling lies, spreading rumors, threats and sharing private information or pictures without permission to do so”. Stop Bullying.gov states that cyber bullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7