Suicide

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This paper discusses the occurrence of suicide, claiming that people from all walks of life continue to succumb to pressures of life and commit suicide. The paper presents a brief synopsis of suicide in ancient Roman history and ancient Catholic history. The paper examines research done to identify the presence of clues and signs that a person is on the verge of committing suicide.

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"Marilyn Monroe, Ernest Hemingway, George Sanders, and Virginia Woolf- what do all these people have in common? Death by suicide. Hard as it may be to swallow, the fact remains that these very famous people who were viewed as successful and had the world at their feet, took their own lives in a fit of depression, anger, melancholia and out of sheer hopelessness. But this phenomenon is not exclusive to celebrities, people from all walks of life continue to succumb to pressures of life and commit suicide. Tens of thousands of people die in this manner every year in the United States alone, not to mention the thousands who die in other parts of the world. The National Institute of Mental Health (2004) reported that in 2000 around 29,350 people committed suicide in the United States and it was ranked the 11th leading cause of death."

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