We don’t know for sure, because when youth die by suicide they take the answers with them. But teens who attempt suicide and survive tell us that they wanted to die to end the pain of living. They are often experiencing a number of stressors and feel that they do not have the strength or desire to continue living. We also believe that the majority of youth who die by suicide have a mental disorder, like depression, which is often undiagnosed, untreated or both.

Answer: Neither suicide nor attempted suicide are criminalized anywhere in the United States or in many other countries, but not because of any "right" to suicide. When penalties against attempted suicide were removed, legal scholars made it clear that this was not done for the purpose of permitting suicide. Instead it was intended to prevent suicide.

Answer: People do have the power to commit suicide. Suicide and attempted suicide are not criminalized. Each and every year, in the United States alone, there are more suicides than homicides. Suicide is a tragic, individual act. Euthanasia is not about a private act. It's about letting one person facilitate the death of another. That is a matter of very public concern since it can lead to tremendous abuse, exploitation and erosion of care for the most vulnerable people among us.

No. I have wanted to give up. I have told God that I was tired and would love to be with him if he wanted to send for me, but I never actually tried to end my life. The baggage a person carries along with paralysis beats on his/her self esteem daily. It can eat away at a person until it destroys him or her. That's why it's so important to have goals that you actively work on achieving. Dreaming isn't enough.

According to the American Association of Suicidology's report U.S.A. Suicide: 2003 Official Final Data, 31,484 people committed suicide in that year. The number of suicides in that year was greater than the number of homicides. According to an estimate by the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were 16,582 homicides in that year.

Neither suicide nor attempted suicide is criminalized anywhere in the United States or in many other countries. This is not because of any "right" to suicide. When penalties against attempted suicide were removed, legal scholars made it clear that this was not done for the purpose of permitting suicide. Instead it was intended to prevent suicide.

More than four times as many men as women die by suicide; but women attempt suicide more often during their lives than do men, and women report higher rates of depression. Several explanations have been offered: a) Completed suicide is associated with aggressive behavior that is more common in men, and which may in turn be related to some of the biological differences identified in suicidality. b) Men and women use different suicide methods.

People do have the power to commit suicide. Worldwide, about a million people commit suicide annually.(5) Suicide and attempted suicide are not criminalized. Each and every year, in the United States alone, there are 1.5 times as many suicides as there are homicides.(6) And suicide is one of the ten most common causes of death in Great Britain.(7) Suicide is an all too common tragic, individual act.

In 2001 in the US, 4,250 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 died by suicide. This is an average of one suicide roughly every two hours! The national rate of suicide (per 100,000) is 9.9. In Washington State during the same year there were 90 suicides, and a rate of 7.0. On a recent survey in Washington middle and high schools, 1 out of 10 students indicated that they had made a suicide attempt in the past 12 months. 1 out of 5 indicated that they had seriously thought about it.

Someone who is suicidal feels overwhelmingly alone, isolated, helpless and without hope. They feel as though they can no longer cope with problems and suicide may seem to be a way out. Many people think about suicide at some point in their lives. But they find these thoughts are temporary as gradually, things do get better. However, that does NOT mean you should ignore suicidal feelings in yourself or someone else.

Suicide is the number one cause of premature death among people with schizophrenia, with an estimated 10 percent to 13 percent killing themselves. Suicide is even more pervasive in individuals with bipolar disorder, with 15 percent to 17 percent taking their own lives. The extreme depression and psychoses that can result due to lack of treatment are the usual causes of death. These suicides rates can be compared to the general population, which is somewhere around 1 percent.

Girls account for 90% of all adolescent suicide attempts, but boys account for 75% of completed suicides.

Can anybody be tested for HIV? Where can this be done? Answers: HIV is a virus that can be present in someone for up to 15 or more years before resulting in AIDS. AIDS is a disease caused by HIV and is an advanced form of HIV infection. Because there is no cure for HIV and AIDS, HIV infection will always end up causing the disease AIDS. However, with all of the new treatments available, this can be postponed to the point where we now do not know how long we can prevent HIV from becoming AIDS.

We will help you arrange suicide and learn how to do it artfully, but the actual act is up to do. We do not offer or consult on physician-assisted suicides.

Suicides may not be committed in Attractive Corpse offices or on our property. We will help you find a suitable location.

Yes, they do that very often. Ghost is an entity who passed thorough the death for various reasons. Very often they are resigned and have only little energy. If such a ghost possesses a person, he or she would have the same feelings and emotions. This can lead to depression which is a popular phenomenon in the western societies. Sometimes ghosts, being envy, persuade people to commit suicide thinking "If I am not alive, you should die as well ...".

When someone we love takes their own life, for whatever reason, the feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are overwhelming. The sense of loss is so profound we feel we may never survive or live a normal life again. Yet life goes on, and somehow we meet each day while our hearts continue to break. The shame, the guilt, the sheer terror continues to push there way into our minds so much that even to breathe seems impossible.and yet we do breathe. and we do go on.

No. This isn't an anti-smoking crusade. Most teenagers who smoke think they can quit whenever they want. They won't know they have a gorilla on their backs until they have tried to quit a couple of times. That's when they will be ready for this program.

Death provides no escape. The hard-core truth; you cannot kill yourself. Your essence, your state of mind, and consciousness remain, with full knowledge of why you took your life in the first place. Suicide won't solve any of the problems, it only eliminates the body as a place or means in which to work things out. And the concept of curtailing one's own life span "before the allotted time" is very real. There is a blueprint.

Most 1912 reports alleged that it was First Officer William Murdoch who had taken his own life (although Second Officer Charles Lightoller insisted that these reports were false.) More recent speculation has centered on Chief Officer Henry Wilde, whose movements and activities that night are largely unknown. If the above shooting/suicide actually did take place, however, it is unlikely that we will ever discover the true identity of the officer in question.

In my communications with those that have taken their own lives, I have discovered that death was not the end to their problems. They may have ended the immediate problem in their life, such as illness, loneliness, fear, etc., but they all, and I do mean all, express regret in taking their own life. They discovered that life does not end and they must face the consequences of their actions. The greatest consequence being the reactions they caused in those they affected by their suicide.

Not enough, but more are learning everyday. YSPP works to teach professionals, parents, educators, clergy and especially young people. We believe that middle & high school students and college students can and should learn the warning signs and intervention strategies to help their friends. We don’t expect them to conduct a professional assessment but we want them to befriend a person in despair and offer support and reassurance and referral to help.

No. Most people who suffer from depression do not attempt suicide, but according to the National Mental Health Association, 30-70% of suicide victims have suffered from some form of depression. This figure demonstrates the importance of seeking professional treatment for yourself or someone you love if you suspect depression.

The answer depends upon the relationship they had with Christ before taking their own life. The truth is even Christians can suffer from great depression and heartbreaks. It is my opinion that people who commit suicide are not thinking rationally. When a person commits suicide, it is a lose-lose situation. Not only does the person lose his or her life, but the people in that person’s life are also left with a sense of loss.