sdd01 said:

whats up everyone...I'm just doing some research on Teen Suicide.

Suicide can become a reality for anyone regardless of age, sex, religion, race etc. What is to blame for this?  Canada is known as one of the greatest places to live in the world.  Teenagers are given so much potential to live out ?The dream? and yet suicide is the number two leading cause
of death amongst teenagers (in canada). The Internet, encyclopedias, books and media all point to the fact that society plays a big role and is doing a poor job in lowering suicide rates.

What do you guys think of that for an opening statement?

What do you think of the connection between suicide and society?  Teenage suicide rate is dramatically raising these days.  There has been alot of recent changes in society that in all probability hass influenced in the suicide rate rising such as:

"-a breakdown in the extended family
-a dispersal of communities
-an increased focus on material wealth
-an overwhelming prevalence of news media
-and an increase in focus on 'the self'."


The members of these forums are usually well educated in these sort of topics but a large quantity of the society is not.  Which brings back my thesis: society is not doing enough to prevent suicide (particulary TEENAGERS)

Anything you guys wanna say about this subject?

P.s. i didnt know if this was a good place to put this thread ?

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Teenagers are given so much potential to live out ?The dream?

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Let's think about this for a moment.  You assume a shitload just by that little sentence.  What "dream" are you referring to here?  The "dream" of going to a public high school where submissive students are relentlessly picked apart by the more assertive students?  The "dream" of having needless and irrelevant information crammed into our heads just so we can get a little piece of paper to say that we're worth something?  But the "dream" doesn't end there.  The "dream" continues to include four more years of collage.  And if you don't go to collage, you suck, you'll end up working a fast food job flipping burgers for the rest of your life. 

/sarcasm off.

That was my life.  And I had it pretty damn good compared to some people. 

So I ask again...just what "dream" are you referring to here?  Society pigeonholes and labels people from the day they exit the womb. 

Society isn't doing enough for suicide because society CAN'T.  Society itself is sick.  One big mental illness.  You know what?  I'm not at all surprised when I hear of someone killing themselves or wanting to die.  Not a bit.  In fact, I'm surprised (really, HONESTLY surprised) that it doesn't happen more often. 

People are killing themselves because we live in a sick culture.  People are confused.  For some reason, we have been taught to be ashamed of the attributes that make us most human.  We have each been crammed into a "lifestyle" to survive, which many of us find repugnant.  Is it any wonder, is it any GREAT SURPRISE that people are rejecting the life that was enforced upon them?

Many people make an uninformed choice about suicide, but that is their choice.  Frankly, if I didn't have a global agenda to work with, I would have killed myself already. 

Society can't help suiciders.  Society is strangling itself.

That's my opinion.  Good luck.