Essay On Copycat Suicide

Imagine sitting in school working on hooks for this essay and the security guard pulls you out into the hallway and you see your sister or brother bawling their eyes out and you hear that someone in your family committed suicide. This is a reality for someone in the world every 40 seconds when someone they know commits suicide. For the record suicide is when someone takes their own life for a number of reasons. Everyone everywhere should care about teenage suicide because depression, anxiety and racism which most people have or receive lead to suicide thoughts or attempts, when someone commits it affects the family members and/or the community, finally the media has a huge role in “copycat” suicides.

First of all depression, anxiety and experiencing racism leads to suicidal thoughts or attempts. In a true story on Teen Health and Wellness called “Jazmyn’s Story”, Jazmyn stated “I slowly fell into a pit of depression” and this depression lead to cutting herself to try to relive her emotion pain but evidently did not work. Then because of depression and physical harm she lead herself towards the path of suicide. (1) Her turning point was one day at school when some boys in her class asked her “Why haven’t you committed suicide yet? We all know you’d look

A copycat suicide is when someone commits suicide in the same way another person did, therefore most people commit copycat suicides when a close friend or family member commits and they want to “go” in the same way. Every day when the media comes out with a new article on suicide, teens who have nothing better to do read it and every once in awhile take the idea and commit themselves.(Pohl 1) So when media informs the public on suicides it’s a harsh topic and they need to be more careful with their words otherwise, your already depressed and self-harming friend could be the next person to get an idea. As you can see media has a HUGE role in “copycat”