Essays About Suicide

Suicide voluntarily taking one’s own life occurs in every country in the world. In Western societies suicide is recognized as a leading cause of early death, a major public health problem and a tragedy for individuals and families. Depression has played a huge role in...

Suicide voluntarily taking one’s own life occurs in every country in the world. In Western societies suicide is recognized as a leading cause of early death, a major public health problem and a tragedy for individuals and families. Depression has played a huge role in...

Depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and themselves. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide...

For some people, suicide represents sacrifice, for love, for religion, or for politics. For others, it is was an escape, an escape from the Earth’s prison which we were in since birth. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the...

When one thinks about their existence, one considers their day-to-day life and think about the standards. Charles Wright Mills came up with the concept of sociological imagination which describes how the ponderings of individuals will exceed the ordinary. As one analyzes the outlook of society,...

Increasing number of suicide cases concerns the modern society. It is bothering billions of parents, psychiatrists, specialists, family, friends, and many more around the whole world. There are lots of reasons that causes someone to commit suicide; mostly, teenagers of these days. Some leave a...

Who will become the next victim of suicide? According to the World Health Organization, in 2017, suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between 15-29 years old globally. While there is no single reason that we can point to for the cause...

One of the greatest German goalkeepers, Robert Enke had his first bout of depression in 2003 when a critical mistake during a game led to a Novelda 3-2 win over Barca (The Telegraph, 2009). Since then, Robert would feel fear whenever a shot was taken...

“Suicide really only frightens those who have never been tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those that are predestined for it”, a quote by George Bernanos. If we think much upon this quote by Bernanos what position can we...

As a definition, depression is a medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. In my opinion depression is synonym of sadness. Every sense of yours is driven by sadness. Every action you take it will have...

In this essay I’m going to talk about bullying. I chose this topic because I thought this topic is familiar to everyone and also it occurs in every generation. This problem is difficult to solve. First of all, I want to talk about what is...

Gary Webb’s career came to a permanent, premature conclusion, ending, December 10th, 2004. The American, Pulitzer Prize-winning, investigative journalist’s life concluded due to apparent suicide, consisting of multiple gunshot wounds. Webb, best-known for his exposé, “Dark Alliance” gives a grueling narrative of the Governmental motivation...

In this article we are going to talk about sexual intercourse that would cause the male to end up dead as they were going to be killed/eaten by females, post-sexual intercourse. I guess, nothing sounds sexier than knowing that you are going to lose your...

Neel Burton wrote an article in 2012 that questions whether suicide is right or wrong. He listed arguments from many different views and from different people and places. One theory is saving someone’s life and committing suicide is going against God’s wishes. The theory about...

Suicide is clearly an issue which needs addressing in England due to the amount of lives lost and the amount of money which is spent on dealing with such incidents (South, 2015). To improve mental health and wellbeing, action will be required across all sectors,...

A competent dying person has some knowledge of this, and with every day that he or she is kept alive, the hospital costs skyrocket. “The cost of maintaining [a dying person]… has been estimated as ranging from about two thousand to ten thousand dollars a...

The Honorable Choice? Suicide is modernly considered to be a decision made by an unhealthy, troubled mind. Depression and emotional trauma often are factors in the act of taking one’s own life and the motivations for the action usually follow a mindset that does not...

The support for legalizing physician-assisted suicide consists of two individual, but similar arguments. The argument of suffering and autonomy. Now with the backing of suffering, it states that it is immoral to force a life support patient in the process of death, whose pain cannot...

In Canto XIII of Dante’s Inferno, those who committed suicide are punished. Like in the other circles of the inferno, the punishments for those who committed suicide is directly linked to the nature of their sin. In the case of those who committed suicide, the...