Essay Archive - Suicide In Our Society
Suicide In Our Society
Once every minute someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy
times a day these attempts succeed.( Earl A. Grollman, Suicide: Prevention,
Intervention, Postvention, Boston: Beacon Press, 1988, p.4) Unlike what many
want to believe, suicide can happen to anyone regardless of race, age or sex.
News reports, books and the internet all point in the same direction. We are
undergoing a breakdown in our social roles, and suicide is the result.
The first ever recorded talk of suicide was in 2000 B.C., when a man
says that his....
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