The Huffington Post wrote a compelling article of about a father who is coming forward 12 years after his son took his life. Ryan is the thirteen year old child that took his life because of bullying and homophobic teasing. His parents took the correct approach and put him into therapy and always supported him. Unfortunately, that was not enough to help him. The family has since then took it on themselves to speak openly about suicide and how to prevent it. They have been to over 1,300 schools to speak of this story. The main goal of his father speaking is to help kids understand the significant and long lasting impact of suicide on family and friends(A Father 's Painful…).
Suicide is something that can be viewed as a selfish act, as if you …show more content…
It is not something that can be ignored just because it is controversial and awkward to talk about. If we ignored murder and acted like it was something that didn’t happen, the world would be a scary place. A life is lost every 30 seconds from suicide. On average, almost 3,000 people take their lives by suicide every day around the world(World Suicide…).
Those are just the statistics of people that successfully attempt suicide. For every person that does successfully kill themselves, there are 20 or more people that have tried but failed per person(World Suicide…). These facts are sickening and should encourage many people to stand up against suicide and do what they can to prevent it.
Suicide is a lot of things, weather it be selfish, cowardly, or heroic, there is one thing that it is not, and it is not okay. Suicide is not acceptable. No one should be pushed to the point of believing that things are not going to get better. No one should feel as if the world would be better off without them. There are warning signs, risks, and actions to be done to help drop these increasing statistics. Awareness needs to be spread, in order for this epidemic to
Suicide is something that can be viewed as a selfish act, as if you …show more content…
It is not something that can be ignored just because it is controversial and awkward to talk about. If we ignored murder and acted like it was something that didn’t happen, the world would be a scary place. A life is lost every 30 seconds from suicide. On average, almost 3,000 people take their lives by suicide every day around the world(World Suicide…).
Those are just the statistics of people that successfully attempt suicide. For every person that does successfully kill themselves, there are 20 or more people that have tried but failed per person(World Suicide…). These facts are sickening and should encourage many people to stand up against suicide and do what they can to prevent it.
Suicide is a lot of things, weather it be selfish, cowardly, or heroic, there is one thing that it is not, and it is not okay. Suicide is not acceptable. No one should be pushed to the point of believing that things are not going to get better. No one should feel as if the world would be better off without them. There are warning signs, risks, and actions to be done to help drop these increasing statistics. Awareness needs to be spread, in order for this epidemic to