Suicide

Suicide is a huge problem in the U.S. each year the suicide rate seems to climb higher and higher. Suicide takes the lives of over 30,000 Americans each year. Most of the people committing suicide are teenagers. There is a lot of history to suicide. Suicide is defintelly not something new. Many factors contribute to suicide in teens each year; here are some of the reasons.

There are many things that lead to people committing suicide. Teens have more factors than older people. One of the biggest factors is that teen's don't have a rational sense that death is final. Another factor that a lot of people disagree about is violent videogames, games that use guns to injure other people as well as themselves. They get the impression from video games that it is ok to kill other people and to harm themselves (document 3). Experts say that there are many problems that happen at home for example higher divorce rates and the lack of attention form parents to their kids (document 4). There are many factors that lead to suicide among teens there are many separate reasons for each suicide. These factors are a very sad part of our history.

Suicide takes the life of over 30,000 people each year and is still rising. Each year there are more suicide cases than homicides. In 1999 the most suicide cases were of white males, accounting for 72% of all cases (document 1). People under the age of 25 accounted for 14% of all suicides in 1999. From 1980 threw 1997 suicide among teen's ages 15-19 increased by 11% (document 2). Even worse kids 10-14 years increased by 109%. Even though white males account for most suicide, suicide in African Americans is increasing dramatically each year (document 3).

As you cans see there are a lot of factors that contribute to suicide each year. Suicide also has a very sad history. There are many ways to stop these deaths. I think the biggest problem is