Our society Isn't Doing enough To prevent Suicide

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 …

…the increase in broken homes, the suicide rate grows as well. Education is our main weapon against it, so we have to make sure we're fully loaded. It's on the news, it's in the books, the statistics are everywhere and they're overwhelming, yet action isn't taken and the problem continues to get worse. The social roles in our society are breaking down where education on this subject is concerned and suicide is the gruesome result.