Scott Anderson On Suicide Analysis

The author claims that mental disorders have a huge influence on suicidal behaviors. He cites an article of The National Institute of Mental Health, and states that 90 percent of all suicide completers demonstrated some type of diagnosible mental disorder. Though, his explanation for suicide cases is not limited to the association between mental disorders and suicide rates. Scott Anderson also highlights the impulsive urge behind the suicidal behaviors. He establishes that many people get a sudden urge to kill themselves, and the availability of resources at that specific moment either encourages or discourages them. In other words, when someone wants to die, “how” they can suicide is a more important question than “why” they would prefer death over living. His uses “British Coal-gas Story” example to
When under danger, or threatened by a physical or psychological factor, they either choose to stay and fight or to commit suicide and escape from their problems. Some people don’t think that they are strong enough to face with their problems, or even if they do think that way, going after the easier option is often more desirable. This type of thinking affects their regular thinking and feeds their impulses. I also think that the way we approach death has a lot do with suicidal behaviors. We don’t appreciate people as much when they are alive, compared to dead ones –which may sound crual in some aspects. Yet, it becomes almost impossible to focus on someone’s bad traits when you know that you will no longer be seeing them. Therefore, you focus on your good memories with them. I think when people feel underappreciated, they see the death as a way of attracting compession, attention and guilt. They often feel like they need to die, so people who hurt them in the first place will feel guilty for their loses and appreciate them