I/ The facts about teen suicide
* While accident and crime are number 1 and 2, it’s the number 3 killer.
* More teenagers kill themselves than we know, that is because some death are not called suicide.
* All kinds of young people commit suicide. Young men are five times more likely to commit suicide than are young women. More females try to kill themselves, but they usually try taking pills or cutting their wrists, so they are likely to be saved by doctors.
* About 5,000 young people do take their lives each year. That is not counting the suicides that are called accidents. Studies tell us that for each person who dies there may be 100 who try but fail. That means 500,000 attempts are made each year. This fact is so shocking that people are paying more attention to teen suicide.
II/ Why it happens
* When normal thinking is blocked by feelings, people have an emotional reaction. And that kind of reaction is most likely to happen when the person is having a crisis.
* Life is like a ride on a roller coaster. It has its ups, times when everything is going great. And it has its downs, when things are so bad. When the down part is very steep and the problems are very bad, that time is called a crisis. A crisis happens in steps. At one of those steps a person may have an emotional reaction that can lead to suicide.
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* Young people often have stronger emotions than older people. They also are likely to copy the suicide from other young people. When this happens, it is called a “copycat suicide”.
III/ Signs of suicide
* Most people who are thinking about suicide talk about it. Eight out of ten young people who kill themselves tell someone about it.
* People who plan to die don’t care about their belongings anymore, they give away things that have been special favorites.
* People who mean to kill themselves don’t value their lives, they do dangerous things like climbing out on a high cliffs, playing dangerous sports without wearing safety equipment or driving too fast.
* The last sign is that they change in behavior. People who try suicide are often in a mood called depression. They may stop talking any interest in anything, they may have trouble sleeping at night or want to sleep all day.
IV/ Getting help
There are offices of Suicide Hotline. Hotline is a telephone crisis center. It is a place that people can call when they are in trouble. They can phone day or night. Someone will always answer and listen to their problems. Suicide Hotline is free to the people who use it. The bills are paid by hospitals and church group. Crisis centers help troubled person by using crisis intervention. It has four steps that help people want to stay alive.
1/ Letting the feelings out
* Crisis counselors know you have the feelings like steam in a kettle without a vent hole. They know the feelings must be let out before you can think clearly about your problem. But first you need to know that it’s all right to have those feelings and to let them out.
* They let you know it’s all right. They often tell you just what you are feeling before you even say it.
2/ Talking about the problem
* Once the person’s feelings are out in the open, it is time to talk about the problem.
* The counselor will ask what happened and when. The counselor will not try to solve the problem. He/she will ask what you think will happen next and how you feel about it.
The Essay on Why Do People Commit Suicide
Why do people attempt suicide? People usually attempt suicide to block unbearable emotional pain, which is caused by a wide variety of problems. It is often a cry for help. A person attempting suicide is often so distressed that they are unable to see that they have other options. Suicidal people often feel terribly isolated because of their distress, they may not think of anyone they can turn to, ...
* Solving the problem will take a long time. A lot of people will be needed to help. The counselor will just help you to bring out all the facts. Then you can go on the next step.
3/ Taking one step at a time
* The worst problem is easiest to solve one part at a time.
* The counselor will help you look at all the parts of the problem. He/she will begin with the one that easiest to solve.
4/ Finding and making choices
* The final steps in crisis intervention is to help the person see that most problems can be solved in several ways.
* With the help of counselor and crisis intervention, a troubled person can believe that he/she is likely to stay on for the ride of the roller coaster.
* Crisis intervention and crisis counseling should only be done by someone trained to do it because dealing with suicidal people is like touching a bomb set to go off. But there are some things a young person can do to help someone who is giving signs of suicide.
V/ When the friend feels like to kill him/herself
1/ Tell an adult fast
* Your friend has told you that the problems are out of her/his control. But they are also out of your control. It’s time to bring in an adult. You should choose someone who has been trained to help, ask her/him to call a hotline or help her make the call.
* If there is no hotline near you, talk to a school guidance counselor. Talk to doctor, or even to the police. Friends and family could be helpful. But it is best to find a person who has learned to handle such things.
2/ Do not try to handle things yourself
* Trying to talk your friend out of suicide could be a terrible mistake. It could mean the end of his/her life.
* You might try to cheer him/her up, try to convince or suggest him/her something to do. All of them are likely to make him/her feels sure that nobody understands. They may do more harm than good.
3/ Do remove all weapons or drugs
* Suicidal feelings come and go. If you can prevent a person from acting for just a little while, he/she may never act on them.
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* Take away the bills or the gun. Take away anything the person could use to kill herself.
4/ Do not keep it a secret
* Good friends are supposed to keep each other’s secrets. But not if the secret is suicide!
* Tell an adult. Your friend may think he/she hates you for telling. But after he/she has been helped, he/she may thank you for it.
VI. Lessons for the living
Even with all the ways of helping, suicide happens. More than a dozen times a day a young person somewhere takes his or her own life. For that person the problems are over. But for those left behind the problems are only beginning. Anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide knows that kind of grief is about the very worst. How do people feel at a time like that? How do they manage to go on? What do they have to go through before the sadness can end?
Here are some of the feelings most families suffer when a child takes his or her own life.
1/ Shock
* At first most families just don’t believe it. They refuse to believe it. Maybe they knew about the victim’s problems. Maybe they had heard threats of suicide. But they cannot accept that it has really happened.
2/ Sadness
* Death always brings sadness, no matter how the person died. People react in different ways to such feelings. Some cry, others can’t cry. Some want to talk about the loved one and the way he/she died, others can’t bear to talk about it.
* Sometimes it seems the pain will never end. It may seem to go away, but it returns suddenly on seeing a picture or hearing a special song. At last, though, most of the pain does go away. Only the memories are left.
3/ Fear and shame
Sometimes suicide brings feelings of fear and shame.
* Many people used to believe that suicide was a sickness handed down from parent to child. They thought that if one person in a family killed himself, others would do so too. Now we know that is not true. Strong feelings may be handed down in families, but suicide is not. But the fear remains.
* Feelings of shame also remain. Whole families will feel that the suicide says something bad about them. They feel that people will think of them as being weak or crazy.
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4/ Anger
* Those left behind often feel great anger at the person who has committed suicide. “How could you do this to us?” they say. “Why us? Why now?”
5/ Guilt
* The mind always looks for a reason for something that has happened, even when there is no reason. Families and friends often blame themselves for the death of a suicide even if it wasn’t their fault at all. This hunting for blame may go on for years. For some people it never ends.
A moment of silence
There is another kind of crisis counseling. This kind is for those who are left by a suicide. It is meant to help the families of teen suicides and also their friends.
The school is one place that gives such help. A school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, is using such a plan. On the day after a student dies by suicide, the principal holds a meeting with all the teachers and counselors. They learn exactly what happened so that they can tell the students in their class. That way rumors are stopped.
In the classes that day the usual subjects are put aside. Instead, teachers and students talk about what happened and how they feel about it. They help each other to understand the death and to get over it.
After the last class of the day, the teachers hold a meeting. They talk about how the day went, and they plan for future days.
Over the next four days the school slowly gets back to normal. On once day all classes may hold a few moments of silence to honor the student who will never return. In that way a death has brought many lessons for the living.
SUMMARY
This book is about everything around the teen suicide. It explains how the suicidal people commit the suicide, it gives some tips for people to realize the signs of suicide and way to prevent before it happens. Moreover, it tell us about lessons for the living.
For me, this book is interesting because it’s useful for anyone ever think about suicide or even not yet. It helps a lot for you to handle things when you have problems out of your control or you might successful prevent any suicide from your friends. It also makes you respect your life.
