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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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Okwonkwo’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. I think that one thing people could do to stop this problem is to be more excepting of others. When people are lonely and they get treated badly they no longer want to be around or exist because their lives are not fun and it doesn’t seem like any one would mind if they were no longer around. Stress and not being able to deal pressure and hard times can truly make someone kill themselves. At times people can be very emotional and if everything is bottled up, if thing, after thing, after thing is going really bad there is only so much you will be able to take. When you have no one to turn too and know one to confess your innermost thoughts too what do you do? Do you continue to live in sorrow or do you simply decide to end it all? For most it’s either you try very hard to make your life better and for those who decide that they can absolutely take it no longer they will kill themselves, giving up on everything and everyone around them. Every person in this world has their breaking point or limit and when you decide to commit suicide you have extremely passed that point. If the world was a better place and people were not so judging we could make strides into a better tomorrow. It’s very sad to see the third leading death of teenagers from 15-19 is suicide. I don’t understand or could even say how hard these teens’ lives must have been, for them to actually kill themselves because there are many times when I am not in a good mood and I don’t want to speak to anyone and I think my life is over but what I do is take a time out, I sit somewhere quietly and just think by myself.
ReplyDeleteOkonkwo suicide in Things Fall Apart was upsetting and sad. A suicide crisis, suicidal crisis, or potential suicide, is a situation in which a person is attempting to kill him or herself or is seriously contemplating or planning to do so. People can kill themselves for many reasons such as depression, family issue, relationship issue, etc. It's very sad that people mostly young people are taking their own life as such a young age. It is many ways to prevent suicide.
ReplyDeleteOne way to stop this calamity is to be a friend or help that person who to attempt suicide. Mostly, they feel lonely and they feel that their is no point in life since they are lonely. Just listen to the person and do not talk about unless they want your opinion. Also encourage the person to talk to an adult they trust if they can't go to their parents. You have to tell them in a nice way that they need help and you are there for the person. The worst thing a person can do is talk down the person even more and this will make the situation worst. Another way to stop this calamity is be kind to everyone because you never know what a person is going through. Just a kind word can help a person and you may not even know. A third way to stop this calamity for parents is not to put too much pressure on your child because this can cause problems that lead to suicide. Parents need to listen to their children no matter what because children look up to their family as their role model and support and take your children seriously.
I know how it feel for people to consider suicide for a number of reasons. Some of those reason can include filling that emptiness they have, show self-harm instead of harm to other person, being in control of something, etc. I was watching a movie called "Painful Secrets" and it was about a girl in high school who secretly cut herself because she want to please the world but feel like no one please her and she express her pain through self-injury. Some situation lead up to her self-injury such as her relationship with her boyfriend, school problems, family issues, and she doesn't have any friend except for one girl who encourage the girl to talk to her psychologist. The ending was that she didn't kill her and she was getting her life back on track.
Its sad that people want to take their own life. I just have to say that this can be prevent and it's not the person fault. To the people who considered suicide, your life is too precious to take your own life and God put you on this Earth for a reason and that reason is not for you to die. Be something in this life and be good at it.
Suicide Is a major issue that is going on in america.adults and teenagers are committing suicide, because they are being bullied or discriminated because of their race, color, gender, sexuality, etc.Nobody is doing anything to help people stop trying to committee suicide.Mainly People committee suicide when they feel like they have no life and they believe their life means nothing so they kill themselves. I think what should be done to stop this calamity is that suicidal people need to get help and they need attention.
ReplyDeleteCounseling can be a choice but counseling is only helping them with their problems and not with their feelings on wanting to kill themselves also believe that there is absolutely nothing that people can do to stop this because you can’t convince someone not to kill themselves and if you try to sweet talk them they will get a sense that you are trying to humiliate them. People that usually committee suicide isn’t getting any help at all what so ever and they are taking some kind of medication. When they get help it doesn’t pay off because they still feel deep inside that their life has no meaning so what is it they can we do to stop this horrible calamity.
I hope somebody comes up with a solution to stop this because if nobody doesn’t allot of people will committing suicide and nothing will be done to stop the next person and so on and so forth.
Even people that committee suicide their families don’t try to give them advice or help them with nothing because they don’t care enough to help, and that another major reason why people committee suicide. If a guy or girl is in a bad relationship that can also lead them to committing suicide. If nothing gets done to help these people then everybody will committee suicide sooner or later.
Marvin Clarke
ReplyDeleteTo stop suicide people should be happy and feel good about themselves because if they feel good about themselves they would realize that they have a reason to live. To lead a joyful life you have to have a positive attitude and mindset and you also have to share that positive attitude with others. Another way to lead a joyful life and not think about committing suicide you have to have a positive circle because they will show you how beautiful life is and how whatever you are feeling can change if you see the brighter side of life. People try to or commit suicide because they believe that they have nothing to live for but they do not know that there can be a reason for that person to keep on living. People also commit suicide because they lose confidence in their self and they feel that they have no one that will give them support and help them through whatever situation they are going to but if they try to look for that one person they really feel they can talk to and try to resolve that issue they are going through. People have different ways to break out of their depression that could cause their suicide and there are not real way to stop it just depends having being positive and that positive behavior with others. I hope that somebody does the right thing and find a real solution to depression because depression is that cause of suicide, Depression is state where someone becomes sad, down in the dumps and more. Some people feels like that for a while but deep depression makes you feel it for a longer period of time that you do not have a full control over and the only thing you want to do its kill yourself which is not right thing to do but person chooses to do it anyway. Like I said before to break out of depression you have an attitude that makes you feels good about yourself and others around you and you have to have friends or family can help you to have that positive attitude or share you some of their positive mindset that can help also. So the key to stop suicide is to have a positive attitude both physically and mental to yourself and others.
New York City has recently passed an anti-bullying law. This is to come down harder on the pathetic bullies out there. Bullying isn’t just a physical object it also a mental and psychological adversity plaguing our country. On the link that was given to us, I read about that in Seventeen magazine. I could not believe that they tortured that poor girl like that. Her name was Phoebe Prince, and she just moved from Ireland with her family. I do believe that the students in her school harassed her because she was a new girl in their school and that she was in a relationship with a senior that had status in that school. The girlfriend of the boy must have had been jealous, because she convinced a whole school to bully this one innocent girl. The result of this barbaric treatment was Phoebe hanging herself. She could not handle the treatment that was being given to her and she committed suicide. I think that if it were me I would have not allowed myself to crack under the pressure. You have to be strong and rise above the negative things that people tell you. If you don’t then you will succumb to the pressure. Many people are being bullied because of the sexual orientation, race, and gender. You should not have to worry about being who you are in this day and age. I thought that our society had matured enough to accept people and their way of life. I guess they didn’t because now people are killing themselves over the harsh treatment that they are receiving. I know that I am not the toughest person in the world, but I am not going to crack under the pressure in this world that do malicious things. I think that the bullies in the world that are mean to other people are compensating for their insecurities. They are trying to make up for the treatment that they have received. I hate to think that there are people out there deliberately harming people out there. I know that this world will never be a happy place because of the cretins out there that only want to inflict pain onto other people. This problem needs to be corrected so that at least our city can live in peace with each other. That is all that I have to say on the matter.
ReplyDeleteBefore reading this topic and the article I was not aware that suicide was third in the leading cause of deaths for teenagers or second for young adults. I was aware that suicide was happening a lot but not that much. I remember myself, when I tried to commit suicide when I think of this topic, I could have been part of these statistics. Honestly I don’t believe it is naturally possible to solve the issue of suicide because people are going to do what they feel to do. Counseling is in place there are help centers and all but teenagers rarely take help from these life lines. They are mostly young and acting off of emotion and feel taking their life is the only escape, I speak from experience. As for adults I cant say I know why most of them decide to take this precaution so im not sure how to solve this calamity from affecting this group. I believe teenagers consider suicide again because they don’t know how to deal with or handle all the emotions built up inside. Like mself I was fed up with all the problems in my life and didn’t want to deal with it. Some young adults do so because they feel its their time to go or they want to meet one of their loved ones that has passed. But there is no general reason why people commit suicide its basically a matter of how you emotionally stable you are and what problems you deal with. This is one issue that isn’t easy to solve.
ReplyDeletesuicide is an idiotic choice because you get rid of all the other options you previously had. Any situation can be handled just if its in the right way. Suicide is just stupid, why would you end your life when you can actually live forward to something in the future. Suicide is also stupid because its just the quitters way out you should always remember this is someone always worse off than you. Suicide is also selfish because there is always some one that loves you and how do you think they would feel if they are no longer able to be around one of their loved ones, suicide should just be completely avoided by taking advise or if it is something completely drastic than move to another country and start over fresh or if that isn't an option than just do the best you can to make the situation better. Suicide is not your only option, every situation no matter what it is has more than one option i don't care what situation you are in, and to me suicide isn't the correct one. How would you feel if you thought about killing yourself right now after some terrible happened to you? don't you think there will still be things left that you have yet to experience? things that would last in your memory forever?
ReplyDeleteI think people commit suicide because they believe it is the easiest way out of their problems, no one wants to take responsibility or get over the issue, people kill them selves over. Suicide is just a desperate act by anyone who is in pain and just wants to get out of it. I think there is no way to stop suicide, everything that has been done to help stop it have still done nothing, in probably affected a few but over all nothing really happened, off the many advertised commercials that advise to bring in mentally ill family members have had no affect. Suicide will always and can always happen, it isn't that hard for some one to kill themselves.
---Joshua Myvette-------
Suicide is a very touching and difficult topic to deal with in life all over the world. People feel that there is nothing left to do in their life, so why not take it for themselves instead of waiting. I think people consider suicide because they probably have a bad life to start with and this is the only way for them to get out of the pain and heartbreak. Others maybe dared to do something crazy and they eventually take their own lives in the process. Recently many gay young adults/teens have been committing suicide more often. Why do people make fun and over nonsense that doesn’t involve them. They force a person to consider or think about killing themselves because they can’t be happy in their life, so why not bring somebody else down. There may not be a lot of things that can be done to stop suicide, but if there was one thing, I would suggest letting teachers or school workers talk to the students and make them feel as if they have someone who they can trust in this crazy, mixed up world. A good friend can always help to avoid trouble in a person’s life. I also feel that the government should try and stop things other than bullying that cause someone in early life to kill themselves! The schools should take some blame as well since they may see more things and not tell anyone in that person’s family to help them get through this rough patch in life. Another thing that I feel may cause someone to kill themselves is the fact that they just give up on life itself, they get to a point in life were everything is in a downward spiral and there’s no way of getting out of it. They always have the choice to talk it out and let it out of their system instead of holding it al in. I prefer to just talk things out when I am being bothered with certain things, because once you get the trouble or problem out of your body then you will become more relaxed an soon at an ease in your life. I hope in the future suicide numbers will begin to decrease and people will realize that there is a way to get out of the hard times in life.
ReplyDeleteTo hear that suicide is even a leading cause in death is upsetting and very disturbing to me. The fact that someone can even be pushed so far, that they believe death is their only option to be put out of their misery is sickening. Suicide is caused by an entire list of contributing factors. Discriminations of race, gender, religion, sexuality, physical appearance, and ethnic background are some causes of suicide. Other things that cause suicide are low self esteem, and loss and depression. Okonkwo’s suicide at the end of Thing Fall Apart was quite unnecessary in my opinion and it should not have happened the way it did. Okonkwo thought he was showing his strength by not letting himself be killed by the white men, but he was actually displaying the little weakness he had by being pushed so far as to take his own life over that fact that his village wasn’t willing to fight with him.
ReplyDeleteMany different people experience different things that are both traumatizing and disturbing, and then there are people who are overdramatic on some levels and take things way to seriously. For those people who have been traumatized, maybe seeking professional help was not the solution to their emotional problem and they had reached their limit as to how much more psychological pain they could endure. For those who have low self esteem and have lost too much, they are not thinking things through properly. Everyone on the planet has a limit as to how much they can take. Some people can take a lot, while other people can only hold on for so long before they are pushed to the edge.
In order to stop people from committing suicide, not only professionals, but regular people need to strive to help others find positive solutions to their problems in stead of resorting to suicide. The more we seek to help each other, the more people who feel as if suicide is the only option will feel as if they have something to love for. When it comes to the welfare of the entire world, I think we would do much better if people were not taking their own lives. Many people believe that suicide is something that cannot be stopped or taken control of, but if we all just give a little more of our time to the people around us the problem can be solved.
Okonkwo's fictional suicide in Things Fall Apart is upsetting, but it is much worse that suicide. It is the THIRD leading cause of death for people between the age of 15 and 19, and the SECOND leading cause of death for people between the ages of 25 to 34. I think that everyone should be able to talk to someone to tell them how they really feel about any situation they are going through. Other procedures that can be used to stop this calamity is to watch what you say to other people and to be aware of all the things people may be capable of doing. I think the reason that people (children – Adults) commit suicide because they are either getting bullied over and over again, people need to realize that bullying is beyond physical but mental and that is why many is pushed passed their limit. Some may do it because of religious beliefs or they feel they no longer have a reason to live, which is not true and is very negative to think, everyone has a reason to be on earth its just the fact that the person cannot handle it. The main reason that they commit suicide is because of discrimination against, color, race, gender, and sexuality. In the last couple of months many kids have committed suicide because they were being bullied and called homosexuals. To me the kids who were bullying the other kids should have common sense not to, because it can push many kids to get hurt all because of anger. Stress is also a big part of suicide in adults; The reason for this is because adults (parents, nonparents) are not fit to take on more than they can handle. They easily get overwhelmed with work, home, and some even go back to school. I do not understand how they can do that when school for me gets difficult. I believe there is not enough power in the world to prevent this and make it a “Better Place” but it can calm down a lot if people actually pay attention to this matter.
ReplyDeleteYes it is true that many people tend to not only live anymore but, end their lives without it happening naturally. The main cause of suicide is due to unhappiness. People that are unhappy for a log time, get fed up with the depression and end their lives immediately. They aren't strong enough to overcome their problems and issues. Suicide is a big issue in the country The United States of America. Things like threats, harassment's, deaths loved ones, race, appearance, sexuality and many other situations lad people to suicide. Also, people also commit suicide by accident. There is a high percentage of people that commit suicide on purpose but yet a small percentage of people that do it by mistake. People commit suicide by many popular ways which are shooting themselves in the head, needles, popping pills(overdose), split of the wrist, etc. These actions must come to an end. Now i know it may not be 100% ended but there is something that we should do to decrease the percentage of suicide not only in the U.S but all around the world. Since, the main cause of suicide is due to unhappiness, we should try to help and make one another happy. For example, things like money make people commit suicide. Due to not having money to take care of the family, bills, everything is just a lot on someone that doesn't have a good paying job. In this case more well paying jobs should be put out there. Good jobs for people who don't want to go to college. As you can see, there are ways to decrease the population of suicides. There should be more sycolitrists and more rehabs. We need to help one another more. If your happy try to bring some one you love that is down happy. Give them good advice and that right there could make a big difference. Hopefully changes like this will one day come! Don't kill yourself try to heal yourself!
ReplyDelete“Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.” Joseph Addison
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.” Madeleine L'Engle
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sometimes life becomes unbearable, and an individual chooses to end their life because they can not handle the additional stress or pressure put upon them. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for people between the ages of fifteen and nineteen years old and the second leading cause of death for people aged between twenty-five to thirty-four years old.
ReplyDeleteI believe that once an individual becomes older, he/she is more likely to think about or even attempt to commit suicide. The reason for this is that as a person gets older, more responsibilities are put upon them. Responsibilities may seem to be overwhelming to individuals. From my experience, I know that the thought of responsibilities scare me and some teenagers my age are forced to have much more responsibility than me because they either have a child to take care of or a certain family issue at home. The age of fifteen is basically the beginning of a person’s stressful life because at this age this is where the additional responsibilities are put on the teenager.
The age of twenty-five is also a stressful age as well because that’s when the individual has either finished college and maybe worrying about paying off student loans or the individual probably started a family and does not know how to handle that responsibility. Student loans are very difficult to pay off sometimes depending on the amount the individual borrowed. Sometimes people may take out student loans and not finish college making it almost impossible to pay off the student loan. The individuals starting a family may have it hard as well. They may not know what to do or how to handle certain situations. Sometimes an individual can not sustain the additional pressure put upon them. Suicide, in their opinion, seems to be the only alternative.
To solve this problem with suicide, I believe that individuals should always go to counseling or talk with other people. Sometimes an individual needs a positive outlook on a situation to prevent them from committing suicide. People commit suicide main because they feel that too much responsibility is put upon them and that they are alone, but if they had a friend and a positive out look on a situation they are not likely to commit suicide.
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ReplyDeleteTo hear that suicide is even a leading cause in death is upsetting and very disturbing to me. The fact that someone can even be pushed so far, that they believe death is their only option to be put out of their misery is sickening. Suicide is caused by an entire list of contributing factors. Discriminations of race, gender, religion, sexuality, physical appearance, and ethnic background are some causes of suicide. Other things that cause suicide are low self esteem, and loss and depression. Okonkwo’s suicide at the end of Thing Fall Apart was quite unnecessary in my opinion and it should not have happened the way it did. Okonkwo thought he was showing his strength by not letting himself be killed by the white men, but he was actually displaying the little weakness he had by being pushed so far as to take his own life over that fact that his village wasn’t willing to fight with him.
ReplyDeleteMany different people experience different things that are both traumatizing and disturbing, and then there are people who are overdramatic on some levels and take things way to seriously. For those people who have been traumatized, maybe seeking professional help was not the solution to their emotional problem and they had reached their limit as to how much more psychological pain they could endure. For those who have low self esteem and have lost too much, they are not thinking things through properly. Everyone on the planet has a limit as to how much they can take. Some people can take a lot, while other people can only hold on for so long before they are pushed to the edge.
In order to stop people from committing suicide, not only professionals, but regular people need to strive to help others find positive solutions to their problems in stead of resorting to suicide. The more we seek to help each other, the more people who feel as if suicide is the only option will feel as if they have something to love for. When it comes to the welfare of the entire world, I think we would do much better if people were not taking their own lives. Many people believe that suicide is something that cannot be stopped or taken control of, but if we all just give a little more of our time to the people around us the problem can be solved.