Suicide

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents 15 – 19 years of age with homicide ranking the third most common way of death (King [1]). In the year 1994 alone, 2,270 teen’s lives were abruptly ended when they decided to commit suicide. Possibly as many as 4,500 youth suicides and 900,00 youth suicide attempts could of actually occurred considering that “medical examiners underreport suicides by 25 – 50%, and that 100 to 200 attempts occur per youth suicide completion” (King [1]). The rate for teen …

…turn to a friend. So it would seem that the peer – group assistance programs would have a beneficial outcome in prevention., and interventions, developing peer-support groups for teens, establishing suicide centers and hotlines, restricting access to highly lethal methods of suicide, and intervening after a suicide to prevent another attempt.. The educational programs would not only help the teens, but it would also help adults help the teens at risk of this type of behavior.