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Did you know that every sixteen minutes, someone commits suicide? Did you know that eight to ten percent of all attempts are successful? One in four people will become clinically depressed. Twenty percent of those people will kill themselves.
Men are four times more likely to take their own lives. Four times more likely to actually do it. Women, however, try three or four times more often.
People between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four are successful in one out of a hundred attempts. People over that age are successful one of four times.
One in twenty five attempts are successful.
Race and ethnicity also makes a difference. Hispanic female high schoolers have the highest recorded attempt rate at fourteen percent.
More people died from suicide than murder or drunk driving.
32, 000 Suicides a year.
89 a day.
One every sixteen minutes.
Common signs or warnings include feeling hopeless or having no reason to live, talking about death, seeking revenge, being angry, feeling trapped, withdrawing from friends and family, insomnia, mood changes, being reckless, giving away one's possessions, and threatening to kill oneself.
Most common methods are overdosing on pills, drowning, suffocation, electrocution, using a gun, hanging oneself, jumping from a window, driving a car off a cliff or into a wall, or slitting of the wrists.
My mother killed herself that way. And I was the one who found her like that. In the bathtub, water stained red. My father was never the same again.
Most people don't understand what kind of an effect that will have on others after they're gone. They tend to focus on their own pain, getting rid of it rather than getting through it. Because of the media and social stereotypes, it does matter if you're black or white, if you're make of female, or if you're gay or straight.
My name is Isabella Swan. And I am a victim of suicide