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Okonkwo's fictional suicide in Things Fall Apart is upsetting, but it's much worse that suicide is the THIRD leading cause of death for people between 15 and 19, and the SECOND leading cause of death for people aged 25 to 34. What do you think should be done to stop this calamity? Why do you think people consider suicide?
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I think the only way to stop this epidemic is for us instill self esteem in our people and find constructive ways to relieve stress. One reason why so many teens die is because they have low self esteem. They may have a hard time fitting in with a certain group of people or they may not be comfortable with themselves as a person. A prime example, gay teens are more proan to suicide rhan a straight teen. This is because they may constantly be bombarded with hate. When your self esteem is high you learn that people can be ignorant and will purposely do things to bring you down, but as long as you like who you are, who cares about people's opinion. There may also be problems at home. Adults are usually more sucure within themselves but stress can be detremental, especially with this recession. People maybe overwhelmed with stress about losing their home, lack of job security, or inability to pay bills. As aresult they see suicide as a way to stop the pain and the worrying.
ReplyDeletePEOPLE CONSIDER SUICIDE BECAUSE I GUESS THEY FEEL BETTER HURTING THEM SELFS THEN CRYING OR HITTING SOMETHING. BUT ITS NOT ALWAYS GOOD TO COMMIT OR EVEN THINK ABOUT SUICIDE BECAUSE ONE DAY YOU ARE GOING TO GET USED TO DOING THINGS TO YOURSELF THAT YOU NOT EVEN GOING TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE DOING IT.ONE THING I THINK THAT COULD STOP THIS CALAMITY IS JUST MAKING PEOPLE FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.
ReplyDeletepeople consider suicide because they feel its nothing left in this world for them. if they have a bully its either thier not coming to school often or terrified to the point where they dont come to school at all. I think there are other ways to handle of situation of being bullied. let someone else know or at least talk to the bully. But for the bullies you need to stop. how can you bother someone so badly that you make them want to kill themselves. what if some one bullied you ?. bullies should go away find something else to do because if a child kills him or herself because of your bulling then youre going down. even if you werent the last person to do the bullying. its not nice to pick on pleople, exspecially if you know they cant handle the heat.
ReplyDeleteI believe people consider suicide because they feel better hurting them self and knowing that the pain might go away or not. Like most common people hurt them self as a way of self esteem or rap or the way their parents treating them. Also another can be that they just stress and life isn’t making it happy for them. People go through a lot as kids while they growing up they never like their past that can also affect them and lead them to doing suicide. The reason why I say suicide is very important because it the most common death in our age range that people do. I believe that things can be better for us I believe that if our child hood or maybe teenage hood can be better so we wouldn’t have to be in the predicament. It a lot that we go through each and every day and it a lot of new things we face. Most teens might have so much on their shoulder. It sad to say that people do suicide. Life can be way better than this. Most people cut them self of jump of bridge or run infront of a cry or a train to better please them. Most people do these things because they feel a lot of pain and they know by hitting thing wouldn’t do better for them. I don’t because I can actually put myself in this predicament and say like at times I do feel this way. Like noting wouldn’t change in my life as much times I can pray or change I want better seem somehow it can’t change. At times I feel like talking to people about it because I don’t know how the outcome might be but then I want take the hurtfulness from me because somehow it seems they look at me as a bad person. But you see I want to do better reach all my goals I stress on so much why am like this but anyway people need to look in a better direction.
ReplyDeletei think to stop this or lower statistics we should have students talk let people know whats happening on the inside as people looking out most people see nothing wrong with the person but if you listen to their lifestyle you could get a better understanding of what there like and who they are most people just pick on other kids to make themselves look better and feel better when on the inside there actually a bunch of cowards or punks that have no life .... i think people turn to suicide because they feel no ones cares about them or they get sick of people starting with them and picking with them bullying plays a major role in sucicide in this generation alot of home and family problems akso makes teens and adults turn the only way they see out of a bad situation that they can no longer handle or bare if teachers would take the time out to stop kids from bullying others when they see it instead of acting as if they dont maybe students would want to be in school more and want to learn maybe less kids will drop out of school and look for an education to get away some kids look to school as a way out and when that door closes on them they think to them selves what other choice do i have except death
ReplyDeletei think people should talk about the things that are going on in there head becuase all that build up in you thats why people kill there self if everyone can just go to someone to tell them whats hurtin them inside they wouldnt be much sucides .it feel like on one cares about you or love you that also why kids go to the gang life becuase they thing the boys around them in thAT Gang is there for you but if you are about to get shot they would not be no were to be found..one more thing people all have things going on in there life but different people go about it more ways then one some kill they self some talk some smoke some drink some cut they self the answer is the TALK
ReplyDeleteHonestly with suicide being the Third leading cause of death for people between fifteen and nineteen, and the second leading cause of death for people aged twenty five to thirty five, is a major problem in humanity. People might consider suicide because they have different perspectives on life. People with cases committing suicide might consider that they don’t belong in this world, nobodies there for them to talk to, lean on, and/or they feel that it’s the right thing to do. In other words they feel an unusual or strange way about themselves. In addition suicide can occur MOST in cases like: not fitting in, people bulling/picking on you, being stressed and/or, keeping secrets deeply inside to where you can think them, but might never speak of verbally. So what’s a better way not to fit in (in their prospective)? Committing suicide? But in reality in most situations people that have tempted, or successfully committed suicide hurt their loved ones. I can’t really give any feedback which can stop this calamity. Different people have different in takes on this situation. Methods that can used are probably going to therapy, taking a breather, or telling a close loved one what’s inside or hurting no matter what precautions or consequences might occur. This is essentially my intake on suicide and what might people be able to do to prevent such a calamity.
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