Dead End: Teenage Suicide
Suicide takes the lives of thousands of teens each year. Studies done around the country showed that about four hundred to 2 million teenagers attempt suicide. The National Center for Health Statistics reported that the average number of successful teenage suicides between 1982 and 1992 were 5,000 per year.
In 1990 the National Center for Health Statistics also reported suicide to be the third leading killer of young adults. Most people, however, think that these statistics could be higher, but unfortunately teenage suicide goes underreported because the survivors, the authorities, and sometimes the laws make it impossible to get an accurate count. In some states, for example, a ...
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suicide are really crying out for help. They want the unhappiness and strains in their live to end, but they really do not want their lives to end. When I was in High School at the age of fifteen, I tried to commit suicide. I was looking for a way out of my sad, impoverish, lonely, single-parent life. I thought that the easiest and most convenient way out was to commit suicide. That way I would no longer have to deal with the pressures of home and school. In the end I survive the overdose and went on to live a regrettable, happy productive life. If only I would have known that there was help out there for me, somebody I could have talked to, maybe my teens years would have been different.
Many experts have tried to pinpoint the reasons for teen suicide. This list of these culprits is long: Too much divorce, too little religion, too much television and too little communication between parents. Absent parents, too much sexual freedom, and widespread use of drugs and alcohol, ...
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