Suicide as a social justice issue

When an individual has hit an all time low, they look for an easy and fast way out.  Sometimes they believe that their only choice is to take their own life in the act of suicide.  Resent studies on suicide show that 90% of the individuals that commit suicide had a diagnosable mental illness.  With proper care and medicine, the individuals may not have felt the need to do such an act.  Another reason behind suicide, is when they don't know another way out. With the resent studies, there have been multiple hotline, websites, and consoling centers that welcome individuals to come anonymously to talk about their problems.  In order to spread the word about these centers that are available at anytime, social media plays a large part.  On twitter for example, there are multiple tweets that send out the world on suicide awareness, and provide multiple phone numbers, websites, and centers near you.  Everyone can be a part of preventing suicide; by simply retweeting a tweet that has the suicide hotline phone number, can save someone's life.  It will even say that "a simple retweet can save someone's life" right in the tweet that is expected to be retweeted.  These simple acts show how the young adults in our world can work together and try to reduce the numbers of suicides each year.


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