More adolescents died from suicide than AIDS, cancer, heart disease, birth defects and lung disease in 1997; therefore, all those lost lives should be a weaking call for our society. Suicide claims more adolescents than any disease or natural cause death. Base on all the media information, adolescents now commit suicide at a higher rate than the national average of all ages. In the past decades, the rate of adolescent suicide in adolescent males has tripled. Suicide rates for adolescent females have increased also.
             Severely depressed people often become suicidal as a result of their feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. They may be unable to act on their suicidal feelings while they are deeply depressed. But in the period following the deepest depression, when others around them see them as "getting better," they may muster sufficient energy to carry out their wishes to die. Only in the United States, there are over 25,000 suicides a year and as many as 200,000 suicides attempts. Statistics, however accurate, can never described the full horror of suicide. If we look a typical suicide victim, we find a depressed , lonely individual who is often undergoing a temporary crisis in his or her life.
             Social changes that might be related to the rise in adolescent suicide include an increased incidence of childhood depression, decreased family stability, and increased access to firearms. Suicidal behaviors are often associated with depression. However, depression by itself is sufficient.
             These are some facts about suicide in our society, suicide took the lives of 30,622 people in 2001. Suicide rates are generally higher than the national average in
             the western states and lower in the eastern and midwestern states. In 2002, 132,353 individuals were hospitalized following suicide attempts; 116,639 were treated in emergency departments and released. In 2001, 55% of...