Ronda Reynolds from childhood was determined to become the first Washingtonian state trooper. Although she had high dreams she barely had a chance to explore them. Ronda did not have good taste in men and for that reason she was divorced once and almost completed a second one. On the last night of her second marriage, she was found with gun shot in the head. The county police department declared it a suicide; however, her mother, Barb Thompson, never truly accepted that her daughter committed suicide.
On September 3, 2013, a sophomore named Bart Palosz committed suicide in Greenwich, Connecticut. Nina Golgowski discussed this in her article, “Connecticut Teen Who Committed Suicide.” Palosz’s story is very similar to Tyler Long’s, a boy who committed suicide in 2007. Tyler Long’s story was told by director Lee Hirsch in the movie Bully. Palosz and Long were treated horribly both verbally and physically by classmates, and nothing was done by their schools to help them.
Students in Newport High School struggle with lots of pressures that come from academics, fitting in, and fulfill expectations set by family and friends. Because of this, students are under immense pressure and have mental health issues. But, would they ever consider taking their own life? In the tragic novel, Everything I never Told You by Celeste Ng, Lydia who is the daughter of Marilyn commits suicide due to pressures in her environment both at school and at home. Trying to fulfill her mother’s expectations, Lydia was dedicating her life to school, but her grades were declining and at the same time she struggled with having no friends because she was so reserved but she could not show that side of her parents.
The novel Catcher in the Rye highlights the struggles that millions of teenagers face as Holden must wrestle with his identity and perception of others. One persistent struggle throughout the story is suicide ideation, when one experiences a progression and range of contemplations, wishes, and preoccupations with death and suicide. It is clear Holden undergoes many steps of suicide ideation and has a fixation on death either with his brother, Ally’s, or his own. He is falling down a bottomless cliff, but due to Pheobe and Mr. Antolini, Holden is able to pull himself up by the lifeline they provide for him, realizing that death is a natural cycle of life that should not be forced and that suicide will only cause pain for himself and those he
“On my honor, I promise that the contents of these reading responses are my own ideas, in my own words, based on my careful reading of the summer books assigned.” Emily Martin Thirteen Reasons Why (1-288) Focus Statement: In Thirteen Reasons Why, author Jay Asher uses the aftermath of Hannah Baker’s suicide to describe the signs of a suicidal individual and to show what effect your actions can truly have in the world.
Unfortunately suicide is the absolute result of conditions such as untreated depression, negative events in one’s life, stress and other occurrences. Sadly suicide rates have only been increasing (according to numbers that the story provides). Janice Mirikitani’s poem “Suicide Note” specifically expresses her struggle in pleasing her parents by emphasizing no matter how hard she tries, she simply is not good enough. Mirikitani explains in lines nine through twenty her effort to fulfill her parents; line ten mentions that if only she were a son, maybe she would satisfy her parents.
Suicide is a very complicated event, and there are usually many different reasons why an individual decides to take his or her own life. Often, it involves a number of different people. In the case of Lydia Lee from Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, it technically was her own fault that she drowned in the community lake. However, many people in her daily life did play a role in her decision to go out to the lake in the first place, especially the members of her family. Even though Nath and James both did play a very significant role in Lydia’s decision to commit suicide, Marilyn should be to blame for Lydia’s death because she put too much pressure on her, she disregarded her feelings, and because she never promoted a healthy social life.
13 Reasons Why is about a high school student, Hannah Baker, who commits suicide. Two weeks after death, her former classmate, Clay Jensen finds a box on his porch. When he opens the box, he finds cassette tapes explaining 13 reasons why Hannah chose to commit suicide. If Clay, decides to listen to the tapes, he will find out why and how he influenced Hannah to take her own life along with many other pieces to her suicide.
Fiction is something invented by the imagination, a made up way to interpret another person 's world or mind, but can also be inspired by the realities of life. The purpose that fiction serves can be to get a point across. For example in the book,” Thirteen Reasons Why”, suicide and teenage conflict is discussed. Although the story is not based on a true story, the author’s purpose for writing it was to make people more aware of what teenagers in highschool could go through. To take away the ability to introduce life lessons and morals through a work of fiction, would be shutting off creativity in the most enlightening way.
The question that I thought of after watching the movie was, was what Ben did at the end morally right? Ben believed that his life was not worth living after what happened with his wife. Suicide in this situation is not morally correct. During this movie, Ben was never in the right state of mind through out the movie. He had this all planned out and kept mentioning dying to Emily.
As of 2015, 5 in 100,000 girls and 14 in 100,000 teenagers commit suicide (Lewis). Teenagers are becoming more vulnerable and schools seem to be taking no notice. If these lives could be saved, it would help so many families across the united states. The National Institute of Mental Health states that there “are as many as 25 attempts of suicide to every one that is actually committed” (Eco Child’s Play). Suicides can be prevented by treatment of the illness.
We need to be aware of the consequences we are making not only to ourselves but to other people like our friends or family. There’s many opportunities in the world to still live by and there’s local services and programs to help out the teens, adults and even elderly people from suicide prevention. Life is tough and I know we all go to ups and downs, but we need to agree that suicide isn’t the answer to ending our lives and we need to change it. Young and elderly people commit suicide for different reasons and need different treatments.
Over the years the issue of suicide has been slowly increasing. It is now the third leading cause of death among young people. The effects of suicide are tragic and felt long after the individual has taken their own life. Some people who consider suicide, however, never make a “serious” attempt at it. For every attempted suicide, there is said to be more than one person whose thought of suicide has never translated into an actual attempt.
Teenagers sometimes had a period of depressing. They are usually stressed over something, such as some of them witnessing the pressure that was coming from all around their surroundings. The hardship of suicidal people have imagining a resolution to their sorrow is due in part to the misrepresented thinking caused by depression. The unimaginable pain the person is going to lead them to take their own life with frustration. A person with depression usually does not has the similar thinking with a healthy person.
How Do We Fight Youth Depression? In today’s world, depression is the first leading cause of adolescent suicides. It is a growing problem in our present society and is often a major contributing factor to one’s personality. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (of the US), one out of every four teenagers undergoes depression.
