It's so sad to think about...

Suicide is a very sensitive subject to breach; there are a lot of different views and a lot of different feelings that are involved in this area. There are also a lot of different reasons why people choose to end their own lives. I personally think that it is unbelievably sad that this happens so often. I looked it up and over 33 thousand people in the United States commit suicide every year, what’s even sadder is that suicide is the fifth leading cause of death in youths between the ages of five and fourteen and the third leading cause of death in youths between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four. I find it very disturbing to think that a five year old would feel the need to end their life. Children so young should not even know that there is something of this nature in the world, let alone be a statistic in the ever increasing numbers. When you are a teenager sometimes things get really hard and the thought does cross your mind. I will admit I have thought about it before and I know friends who have thought about it before as well. I don’t personally know anyone who has attempted suicide or committed suicide and I thank God everyday that I don’t. Is suicide justifiable? I don’t really think that anyone can say, we all have our opinions on certain issues and feel how we feel about them but until you have walked in someone else’s shoes to know how they were feeling and how they were thinking, it is nobodies place to judge them. A lot of times kids get bullied around at school, people start rumors about them, make fun of them, and basically make their lives miserable. When you are a teenager you don’t really have a choice but to deal with it either, you can’t stop going to school, you can’t move away, and most of the time you can’t hide from it either. As an adult there is more stress added and often times more expectations that need to be lived up to. I can understand why people would feel like there was no other way out and because I can understand it makes me so sad to think that so many lives have been ended mostly because of society’s ruthless misunderstanding and violence towards anyone and everyone. To feel like there was no way out would be torturous. I also think that this problem can be drastically reduced and that is another reason why it is so sad to think about. There is something that can be done to help these people, to save them yet many times people just turn the other way. I think that if our society cared more about each other and showed more compassion and respect towards other human beings that the numbers of people who felt the need to end their lives would dramatically decrease. It is essentially all up to us and what we are or are not going to do about it.