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Suicide
* 'normal' response to certain kinds of stresses.
* Every suicide tragedy for families and communities.
* Many suicides come from some form of depression, which is very treatable
  - happen around that age
  - occur during hospitalization or shortly after discharge
  - result from loss of relationships and from loneliness
  - reveal a history of at lest one previous attempt
* Most suicide comes from the replay of many past memories.
* Most suicides are in the elderly
  - males
  - preventable as long as the signs are recognized and addressed in time
  - happen because too little or nothing at all was done
  - involve firearms
  - represent combinations of various needs
* Some suicide occurs in homes.
* account for more that four out of five firearm deaths
  - one in ten premature deaths
* affects all age groups, including children and the elderly
  - demographic groups in America
  - many populations
* also devastates the families and friends left behind.
* are also commonplace, since the virginity test is often times inaccurate
  - extremely common in the war zone
  - everyday incidents
  - fairly common on mass transit rails
  - three times as common among males than among females
* attempts with firearms are almost always fatal in contrast to other methods.
* basically comes down to a balance between reasons for staying alive and reasons for dying.
* belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.
* can also result from overwork, which the Japanese call karoshi
  - look like the only option to a person in total despair
  - occur in 'clusters' within a local area
  - result from a loss of hope
  - run in families
  - sometimes be a very selfish act
  - take place during either the manic or depressive episodes
* carries a complex stigma for survivors, affected others and service providers.
* claims more adolescents than any disease or natural cause.
* common cause that turns a precious human life into a dead scientific object
  - outcome for desperate gambling addicts who have lost all their money
* complex behavior usually caused by a combination of factors
  - phenomenon for which there is no single answer
* complicated outcome of mental illness.
* continues to be a leading cause of death in the United States
  - claim the lives of many individuals each year
* cowardly way to end one's problems of life.
* crime in most states
  - some places , and it is considered a sin in many religions
  - of forgetfullness that leaves heartaches that last a lifetime
  - with failed suicides liable to be punished by the law
* cross all social, economic and cultural boundaries.
* crosses all socio-economic group boundaries.
* cuts across all age, economic, social and ethnic boundaries
  - ages, economic, social and ethnic boundaries
  - sex, age, and economic barriers
* dangerous component of the bipolar puzzle.
* distinct human act that appears in all societies.
* exists as a public health crisis.
* explains only a small proportion of the increase in mortality among the depressed.
* fact of life among the homeless.
* faithless act.
* frequently direct and lethal outcome of depression.
* fundamental human right.
* grave offense against the fifth commandment.
* growing concern as a cause of death in rural adolescents
  - problem in our world
* happens frequently in all age, race, and economic groups
  - spontaneously without warning
* harsh reality for the loved ones.
* has major impact on family members and the youth's peers.
* have no coffin.
* is about stopping pain.
* is also a choice that the loved one made
  - leading cause of death for young people
  - major cause of death in anorexia
  - serious issue in many Aboriginal communities
  - murder unless it is committed by a person who is mentally unbalanced
  - rife in prison
  - always the act of a psychotic person
  - among the leading causes of death for children and young adults
* is an act of complete desperation
  - selfishness
  - equal opportunity killer and crosses all ethnic and socioeconomic groups
  - especially difficult way to lose a loved one
  - extreme reaction to negative input
  - important public health problem
  - index of an ill society
  - individual and tragic decision that some people make
  - intentional taking of one's own life
  - involuntary outcome of suffering caused by pain
  - unnecessary impulse, easily overcome and eliminated with cognitive therapy
* is associated with low seretonin functions
  - other forms of violence and injury
  - attempted most frequently during adolescence and through mid-life
  - believed to be contagious by many in the thin blue line
  - confession and confession is suicide
  - considered to be the most serious of the potential outcomes of the mental disorders
  - consistent with lifelong coping patterns
  - diseases
  - estimated to be the eighth leading cause of death in all age ranges
  - even more frequent among older people
  - far more common than homicide
  - five times more common in boys than girls
* is high among alcoholics
  - persons with schizophrenia
  - teenagers and the reason is because they have no hope for the future
  - human activities
  - inherited genetically
  - intentional, self-inflicted death
  - killers
  - legal in Australia, but assisting suicide crime carrying severe penalties
  - less common in people treated in the early years of their illness
  - like all sins of murder
  - mainly a problem for teenagers
* is more common among the elderly than in any other age group
  - women who are single, recently separated, divorced, or widowed
  - in lower socio-economic groups
* is more likely among women than men
  - to happen when the family is away from home leaving the ill person behind
  - when the person has a diminished capacity to think logically
  - most likely to occur at night as well as over the holiday season
* is much higher among poor children
  - more common among the rich
  - murder of self without opportunity to repent of the sin
* is murder, just as truly as homicide is
  - murder of the self
  - self-inflicted and therefore a grave sin
* is never a worthwhile answer to sadness and depression
  - something done casually and without thought
  - normally a misfortune of one's own making
* is now the second leading cause of death among adolescents
  - of death among children and adolescents
  - major cause of death among high school and college students
  - second-leading cause of death among teenagers
* is now the third leading cause of death among teenagers
  - killer of young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four
  - third-leading cause of death among adolescents
* is often a cry for help that ends in tragedy
  - result of severe depression
  - an impulsive decision
* is often the dominant, but silent violence issue in rural communities
  - final act in a course of self-destructive behavior
* is one case where it's better to guess wrong about someone's intentions than to stay silent
  - of the hardest things for families and for friends to deal with
* is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents
* is one of the most devastating types of loss
  - selfish things a person can do
  - tragic and misunderstood deeds many families face
  - top five causes of death among teenagers and young adults
  - our nation's ninth most common cause of death each year
  - perceived to be something that happens to loners
  - personal execution
  - predominantly a male act
  - preferable to dying of cold
* is preventable and experts say that it is preventable through awareness and education
  - at any age
  - in many cases
  - quite common among the lower class
  - rare among pregnant women, but much more common after induced abortion
  - related to weather phenomenon
  - removal of stones of the moving colour
  - responsible for more deaths per year than road traffic accidents
  - said to be the greatest expression of self hate
  - second only to accidents as the leading cause of teen death
* is seen as a preventable death in the minds of many people
  - sign of weakness
  - the final solution to a perceived insoluble problem
  - self- murder, and is one of the most desperate crimes which can be committed
  - self-murder
* is something many people battle with at some point in their lifetime
  - that can be stopped
  - still socially taboo
  - strictly taboo in Muslim culture
  - surely a universal phenomenon associated with conscious life-forms
* is the act of intentionally taking one's own life
  - biggest killer of young men in some parts of the country
  - deliberate taking of one's own life
  - direct killing of oneself on one's own authority
* is the eighth leading cause of death among the entire population
  - death in America
  - eighth-leading cause of death in the United States
  - embodiement of selfishness, but is the right of the individual
  - fifth most common cause of premature death
  - intentional taking of a person s own life
  - last stage of an isolation-withdrawal process that is detectable and preventable
* is the leading cause of death among adolescents
  - among college students
  - among gay and lesbian youth
  - among gay male, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual youth
  - among gay teens
  - behind bars
  - for gay and lesbian youth
  - for homosexual and bisexual people
  - in young homosexuals
  - type of firearm death
* is the most common kind of fatality
  - frequent cause of death in U.S. jails
  - irrational of all individual actions
* is the most sincere form of self criticism
  - self-criticism
  - tragic consequence of depression
  - nation's eighth leading cause of death
* is the ninth leading cause of death for Indiana residents
* is the number one cause of death among adolescents who experience identity confusion
  - killer among offenders in federal prisons
  - two killer of college students
  - one most selfish act a person can commit
* is the only decision from which no one can turn back after they have made it
  - out to some people who can no longer cope with their problems
  - outcome of psychological debilitation
  - practice of taking one's own life
  - result of complex beliefs and reasons
* is the second highest cause of death for young people
  - death of college students
* is the second leading cause for death among American Indian adolescents
  - death in teenagers
* is the second leading cause of death among Native American adolescents
  - death among college students after accidents
  - death among college-age students
  - death among high school students in British Columbia
  - death among teenagers, behind car accidents
  - death among youths
  - death for young people in Oregon
  - death in colleges
  - death of our age group
  - student deaths
  - major killer of college aged kids
  - most common killer of Canadian teens
* is the second-leading cause of death among teenagers
  - among teens after traffic fatalities
  - sincerest form of self-criticism
  - tenth leading cause of death, roughly equivalent in size to road traffic accidents
* is the third leading cause of death among adolescents
  - death among young black men after homicide and accidents
  - death among young people
  - death for teen-agers
  - death in adolescence
  - killer of young people today
  - most common cause of death among young adults after car wrecks and homicides
  - third-leading cause of death for teenagers in America
  - top killer of teen-agers
  - tragic drama in the mind
* is the ultimate defense against life's troubles
  - form of self-destructive behavior
  - in teen rebellion
  - physical violence against oneself
  - way a work of art is completed
  - world's ninth leading cause of death
  - thought by some to have a genetic component, to run in families
  - ultimately a psychological problem
  - used for death
  - usually a rare act of a troubled or depressed person
  - violence directed at oneself
  - when a person kills themselves
* leading cause of death among teenagers today
  - amongst adolescents so it definitely requires attention
* leading cause of death in Georgia
  - Minnesota
* major and outstanding risk of major depression.
* major cause of death amongst dialysis patients
  - issue for gay teens
  - public health problem in the United States
* marks the negation and rejection of life itself.
* means of achieving the easiest way out
  - that one intentionally terminated one's life
* movement away from pain and a movement to end consciousness.
* multidimensional event that has to be studied and discussed in a multidisciplinary way.
* now kills more young men than accident or disease
  - ranks in the top five causes of death in the United States
* occur in every month of the year and in all seasons
  - only in lower socio-economic groups
* occurs at a higher rate for older adults than any other age group
  - because of biological factors in the brain that distorts rational thinking
  - in ten to fifteen percent of all persons with a bipolar disorder
* occurs more often among the wealthy
  - than people probably know, or want to admit
* often carries stigma similar to that of mental illness itself
  - happen right after a seemingly trivial event
  - is linked to depression
  - leads to a sense of guilt or failure among survivors
  - takes bright young people who appear to have promising futures
* only happens when the person succeeds.
* permanent response to a temporary problem.
* permanent solution to a temporary and very treatable problem
  - what is usually a temporary problem
* public health concern
  - issue of concern for the individual, the family, and the community
* ranks among the first ten causes of death in urban communities
  - top three causes of death in adolescents and teens
* reaction to intense feelings of loneliness, worthlessness, hopelessness, or depression
  - overwhelming feelings of loneliness, helplessness and depression
* real and frightening possibility when an individual is depressed
  - threat in depression
* refers to having intentionally caused one's own death.
* remains one of the top causes of death for youth.
* represents one of the leading causes of preventable death.
* requires both the ability to organize and the energy to implement a plan.
* result for too common in untreated depression.
* results from a feeling of hopelessness, which lack of faith
  - in one of the highest rates of potential years of life lost
* reverberates through the lives of children and grandchildren.
* risk for people with depression.
* self-inflicted choice.
* self-willed death.
* serious danger in people who have schizophrenia.
* serious problem among older men
  - for youths today
* serious public health issue
* significant cause of death among young people.
* sin of rebellion.
* solution to an unresolvable problem.
* sometimes is seen as the way to end the misery and pain.
* specialist area that requires more training than is being given.
* state of mind.
* strike all ages.
* successful or unsuccessful attempt to intentionally kill ones self.
* taboo subject in our society
  - that no one wants to talk about
* takes a severe toll on families and friends left behind.
* testifies to life's tragic brokenness.
* theme of Rock music.
* tragedy that can often be avoided with proper understanding.
* tragic and potentially preventable public health problem.
* tragic, complex behavior usually caused by a combination of factors
* universal human concern.
* usually takes place with little or no warning.
* varies cross-culturally, is differential by age, sex, and temperament.
* very complex behavior
  - human behavior,that remains difficult to ex- plain fully
  - narrow category that involves self-infliction
  - real risk for people who suffer from depression
  - serious concern for depressed young people
* very serious issue among teenagers
  - that affects many people s lives
  - issue, which affects hundreds of people each year
* violation of divine law.
* way of life
  - to escape pain and hurts
* willful act of unbelief.
+ Euthanasia, Alternatives to euthanasia, Assisted suicide: Death :: Law :: Social sciences :: Ethics :: Suicide
  * Suicide is when a person kills themselves. Sometimes when a person is very sick they need help to die, and if someone helps them to kill themselves, it is called assisted suicide. In some countries people are allowed to help someone to kill themselves, so long as they do not kill the person, and it can be seen as a more acceptable option because it must be the person's own decision. Because a second person did not kill the other person, it is not always considered to be euthanasia, as some people see an important difference between someone killing themselves and someone killing another person, and they believe that euthanasia is only when a second person kills the first.