In researching suicide, I found that the numbers are staggering. Suicide is the ninth leading cause of death in the US, with 31,204 deaths recorded in 1995. It was at number eight on the list in 1998, and as the numbers are steadily increasing it threatens to move up the list. This approximates to around one death every seventeen minutes. There are more suicides than homicides each year in the United States. In 1993, the suicide rate was 11.3/100,000. Two-thirds …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…other death) because the pain they feel is stronger knowing that that person would rather be dead than live in the world as they see it. Though any death is a tragedy and loss to society, most suicides were not carried out to hurt anyone but only to help themselves. This can be considered as selfish, but should only be seen as their personal right, whether or not we feel "they" could have been helped.