According to the article " Girl Suicide", which I've read today morning on the newspaper, the rate of teenage suicide is increasing rapidly than before. Surprisingly, The average age of the teen suicide is 15~16 years old. Moreover, the method of killing themselves also have changed. Recently, they are using their own firearms instead of strangling themselves. That means even the young teenagers can purchase guns or weapons easily than the past days. Experts are now in urge to solve this social problem , which is spreading fast to the whole country.
These days 'Teen Suicide' also has been a serious problem in my country, Korea. Unlike in the U.S, most of the teenagers jump down from the high building or the apartment. Usually , the reason is because of the grade(score) in schools or the pressure by their parents. From the research, Korean parents have almost the highest passion of education to their children among the other countries. This causes their children stressful and to be cowered. I believe that is why they choose to kill themseleves.
However, I didn't realize that this is also a big problem in the U.S. We should solve this problem quickly before we can't even deal with it. In my opinion, I think it's too easy to get a gun(firearm) in the U.S. The stores must have a limitation of a certain age of selling the products such as weapons or guns. Also, most of them who kill themselves just need a person to listen to their troubles in mind. If you read something on their face, I believe you should not just ignore and pass them by.
3 comments:
That's a sad article and topic.
I've learned a little about depression and how the adolescent brain changes and responds... the same stresses for an adult would be handled different than a teenager handles them. It's good thing, or there would probably be a lot of adult suicides, as the world and life can be so stressful.
The article makes me sad and even more the fact that the reason why teenagers do things like that is because of less good grades. That couln' t be the whole target from parents and their children. Everybody should keep eyes and ears open to try to prevent such absurd doings.
Even if I strongly agree with you that it is too easy to get a gun in the U.S. in my opinion you could not prevent a suicide by sharpen the laws therfor. Teenagers will only choose another method to kill themselves.
Yeah! I couldn't understand why we can purchase a firearm in supermarket. People say that it is for self-protection, but in deed it occationaly used as a weapon to kill others. Self-protection...It is too good word for suspects when they attack a victim. If you say "I killed him because I thought he was going to kiil me,so that was self-protection," you might get rid of the time in jail... I couldn't understand it.
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