Adolescent depression is a greatly under diagnosed disease that leads to serious difficulty in school and personal life. ... During adolescence, many teens and children are very unsure of what is going on in their lives. Because of puberty and changes in hormones, teens may feel depressed over a typical teenage situation (ex. breaking up with ones boyfriend or girlfriend) and may not realize that what they are feeling is normal for someone of their age. ... Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youth's aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, 19...

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Just exactly what is suicide, Webster's defines suicide as the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind. ... (Borowsky 2001) Although there are no exact test in determining what child is at risk for attempting suicide one can look what constitutes a low, moderate, and a high risk for suicide. ... In 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) listed suicide as the ninth leading cause of death in the US, taking the lives of 30,862 people. ...

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Jennifer wished she would have had time to talk to her and explain that it was not just about the weight loss, but the discovery that she was suffering from depression, a treatable disease. ... She had to change her attitude about areas of her life that will bring her to depression and keep in mind the ways to battle this disease (Robotham 5). ... A black woman was raised to call depression the blues; because of this, maybe it played an underline reason why she never assumed depression was a serious disease. ...

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The people around you are wondering what was going through your mind and why you did it. ... Sometimes there is just no explanation, again there really is no telling what goes on in kids minds as they contemplate taking their lives. The Centers for Disease Control report that between 1980 and 1993 the suicide rate has risen 120% for 10-14 year olds, and for 15-19 year olds it has risen almost 30%. ... They may say things like, "I wonder what it's like to be dead? What happens to your mind when your heart stops?" ...

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PTSD is not the cause of suicide, however, untreated depression is the number one cause of suicide according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which report that one in ten Americans suffer with depression. ... Street busts have little impact in areas with high drug activity and violence, no matter how many times you lock'em up they come back and do it over again, or someone else just takes the reign. ... (Banished) "If you can't do it we'll find someone to replace you that can....

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The debate still rages today as terminally ill people fight for what they feel is their right to put an end to their suffering and to die a more dignified death. The opposition believes that no matter what the reason, suicide is morally wrong. ... An international panel of the World Health Organization defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative therapies" (qtd. in Foley 293). ... Most societies throughout time have felt suicide is ethically wrong, however, some societies such as the Vikings believed that to die during battle or com...

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So, what is physician-assisted suicide?  ... This so called "mercy killing" gives the patient a chance to escape potentially long-term suffering and misery resulting from terminal diseases and conditions that are hurting and or slowly killing the patient. This method of death also gives the individual a chance to decide when to end his or her life, by committing suicide in a peaceful manner rather than waiting through prolonged and continuous periods of suffering from the disease that it is killing him or her. ... In contrast, there have been other physicians who believe strongly in...

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Medical illnesses such as stroke, a heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorders can cause depressive illness, making the sick person apathetic and unwilling to care for his or her physical needs, thus prolonging the recovery period. ... From another perspective, you are more likely to kill yourself than be killed by someone else... "If you don't do what I want, I'll kill myself," is the basic theme here. ...

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