Suicide

Teenage Suicide is a major issue in today’s society. More and more teens think that suicide is the way out a way to cure open wounds and fix broken things but what some people don’t realize is that it is a serious issue. In Canada approximately 500 youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years die by suicide each year. Suicide is the intentional taking of one’s own life.

Teenage Suicide has a lot of effects on the society as a whole but t allso has many other aspects to it. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people aged 15–24 years in Canada (Skinner and McFaull 2012). Research has shown that not only depression causes teens to even debate suicide. Some reasons include divorce, new family formation, moving around constantly, emotional neglect, exposure to domestic violence, alcoholism in the home, substance abuse the list could go on forever.   Social Media has changed a lot since you were a teenager things like Tumblr, Instagram and things like that have a major impact on teens life's. According to the media bistro 61% of teenagers cite tumblr as their favorite site. For the most of it tumblr is teenagers who make blogs and post, reblog, favorite and scroll though photos, quotes among other things. I personally have been told that when i reblog its how I’m feeling but what about the blogs that are full of suicide notes, people cutting and committing suicide ever even contemplate thats how they are feeling? people dont even stop and thing about that and tumblr actually does this really awesome thing that when you type suicide, cutting, depression, sad anything along those lines a sign or a page pops up and its asks if everything is okay it tells you about hotlines you can call anonymous and not, about websites you can visit some advice like filling your blog with positive and supportive things (link in bibliography). 9 out of 10 teenagers use at least one social media site and adults aren’t any better social media, technologies have completely...