Suicide Prevention Research Paper
The topic that I have chosen for this paper is Suicide Prevention in your Area. Suicide is a serious problem that has effected the entire country. Recent studies have shown that suicide is the eleventh leading cause of death in the United States. It is my belief that if more and more people are educated about suicide, the warning signs, whose most at risk, and how to help prevent suicide; perhaps, the suicide mortality rate will decrease in the United States.
The need for suicide prevention should be quite obvious, because suicide is like a contagious disease in the United States. Suicide effects people of all different age groups, different ethnic and cultural groups. To the best of my knowledge it is difficult getting accurate data on the …show more content…
According to the Samaritans of New York (a suicide prevention crisis center), the risk of suicide may be at its greatest if the depression begins to lift. Even though many different individuals get depressed from time to time and may or may not try to attempt suicide the warning signs are basically the same at any age. When dealing with children and adolescent's if they begin to socially isolate themselves this is a warning of depression that can lead to an attempted …show more content…
Before doing research for this paper I would have never believed that there could be an age bias in suicide, yet according to the National Institute of Mental Health (1997), suicide among the elderly tends to receive less attention in most scientific literature then suicide in adolescents and young adults. At this point in time research has shown that suicide is viewed as more acceptable for an older adult then it is for a younger adult. In recent polls an increasingly larger amount of the population has approved assisted suicide; which, is an issue that is more important to older adults then to younger adults, because of the likely hood of terminal and debilitating illnesses among the elderly. Suicidal behaviors among the elderly are more fatal then those of other age group's, because older adults are more prone to self-injuries that may result in
The need for suicide prevention should be quite obvious, because suicide is like a contagious disease in the United States. Suicide effects people of all different age groups, different ethnic and cultural groups. To the best of my knowledge it is difficult getting accurate data on the …show more content…
According to the Samaritans of New York (a suicide prevention crisis center), the risk of suicide may be at its greatest if the depression begins to lift. Even though many different individuals get depressed from time to time and may or may not try to attempt suicide the warning signs are basically the same at any age. When dealing with children and adolescent's if they begin to socially isolate themselves this is a warning of depression that can lead to an attempted …show more content…
Before doing research for this paper I would have never believed that there could be an age bias in suicide, yet according to the National Institute of Mental Health (1997), suicide among the elderly tends to receive less attention in most scientific literature then suicide in adolescents and young adults. At this point in time research has shown that suicide is viewed as more acceptable for an older adult then it is for a younger adult. In recent polls an increasingly larger amount of the population has approved assisted suicide; which, is an issue that is more important to older adults then to younger adults, because of the likely hood of terminal and debilitating illnesses among the elderly. Suicidal behaviors among the elderly are more fatal then those of other age group's, because older adults are more prone to self-injuries that may result in