Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats

• To laugh often and love much… to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self… this is to have succeeded.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.- Aristotle
  
• You must be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
  
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.- Mahatma Gandhi
  
• Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.- Unknown
  
• Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor
  
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.- Hugh Downs
  
• If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. – Marie Osmond
  
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill
  
• Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. - Voltaire

Is there any choice?

Basically most people who commit suicide suffer from depression. It causes people to focus more on their failure and disappointments. They insist on the negative parts in different situations and mostly see the downside of their abilities or values. Someone with severe depression is not probably able to see the positive results and thinks that things will never be right or they will never be happy again. Depression affects a person's thinking in a way that the person doesn't see when a problem can be overcome. It is like putting filter on some one’s thoughts that distort and distract everything. That’s why depressed person tends to think that his problem is an everlasting issue so that he/she needs to find a permanent solution –suicide- for it. Depressed people often tend to fail to find another way – except suicide – to escape from emotional sufferings or to communicate their hopeless unhappiness. Sometimes people who feel suicidal may not even realize they are depressed. They are unaware that it is the depression — not the situation — that's influencing them to see things in a "there's no way out," "it will never get better," "there's nothing I can do" kind of way. Once depression is cured due to a proper therapy or treatment, the distorted thinking is cleared. The person can find pleasure, energy, and hope again. But while someone is seriously depressed, suicidal thinking is a real concern (Matthew K. Nock, 2008).

COMING UP SOON: SUICIDAL CONCEPT #2

Myths & Facts about Suicide

• Myth: A person attempting suicide says, "God beckons me."



• Myth: When even some religious treatises have advocated suicide, how can it be prevented ?



• Myth: Only others commit suicide. It will not happen to me.



• Myth: People who talk about suicide do not commit it, but only threaten to do so.



• Myth: A person committing suicide never reveals his/her intention to anyone.



• Myth: A person who attempts suicide will definitely complete it at some time.



• Myth: If a person is saved once, there is no need to bother about him later.



• Myth: Only poor people commit suicide.



• Myth: Suicide runs in families, so nothing can be done.



• Myth: Suicidal persons are always mentally ill.



• Myth: Asking about suicidal thoughts may precipitate it.
  

According to a recent study from Bangalore, about one-third of those committing suicide had verbally communicated or told someone or indicated their suicidal ideation indirectly a few days earlier. In Thailand, half of those committing the act gave clear warning signs.

Some suicide Statistics (2005)
Actual Suicides attempts in 2005

• In 2005, 17 percent of all deaths are from suicide.


• On average, one suicide occurs every 16 minutes in the U.S.


• Suicide is the third leading cause of death in 10- to 19-year-olds today in the united states National Center for Health Statistics, 2007.


• Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people aged 15-24 year olds.(1st = accidents, 2nd = homicide)


• Suicide is the second leading cause of death for 25-34 year olds.


• Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students.


• More males die from suicide than females.(4 male deaths by suicide for each female death by suicide.)


• More people die from suicide than from homicide.(Suicide ranks as the 11th leading cause of death; Homicide ranks 13th.)


• Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 25-34 year olds and the third leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year olds.


• Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 79.4% of all U.S. suicides.
  (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, CDC)


• Over one million people die by suicide worldwide each year


• Global suicide rates have increased 60% in the past 45 years.


• There were over 800,000 suicide nt of U.S high school students said that they had seriously considered or attempted suicide in the last 12 months. (Eaton & others, 2006)


• On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds somewhere in the world.

Let's think: why does it happen?

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