Suicide: Why and How to Prevent It

Sri Indah Cahyani, 1 SMA, 16 September 2005

A lot of teenagers think that the fast way to end their problems with suicide. Suicide is killing themselves. And they have a lot of reasons why they do that. One of the reasons is that they can’t handle a problematic situation. So they think the only way to end their problems is with suicide. They think nobody cares about them. So nobody can help them to get trough their problems. So they just run away from their problems with a very shallow way.

A lot of problems that make some teenagers choose that way such as financial problems, they are shy because they don’t have what the others have and that makes them feel desperate. And other problems are broken-home, their parents always at odds or abuse (whether physical or sexual) and those problems make them down and so desperate. Sometimes it is just because of a simple thing that makes them to take their lives.

I think it can happen because of lack of attention of the people around them. We start from family; maybe parents should give more attention to their children. Sometimes their children think their parents are careless of them. But actually maybe their parents are too busy with their career, or even the parents abuse their children.

And we should care about our friends too. Sometimes at school we like to ignore the nerds. What you feel if you are in their position. You must be desperate and hate the universe. Maybe they are weird but their just human being, so treat them like human too. So we start off to prevent a suicide from a small community.

If somebody tells you that he or she planned to commit suicide, you must give him or her advice that suicide is not a solution of his or her problems. If you think to do suicide just forget it and don’t think about that again. Against a suicide!