Fact about suiciding!

• Third
Where suicide ranks among the leading causes of death for young people ages 15-24 (after unintentional injury and homicide).



• Fourth
Where suicide ranks among the leading causes of death for young people ages 10-14.

• 5,000
The number of young people ages 15-24 who commit suicide each year.

• 100 minutes
Every 100 minutes another teenager will commit suicide

• 80
The percentage of people who talk about suicide before taking action.

• 5-10
The percentage of teenagers who have depression or manic-depressive illness.

• 4
Four times as many men commit suicide than women but, ...

• 3
Women attempt suicide three times more frequently than men.

• 60
The percentage of high school students who said they had thought about killing themselves, according to a recent survey of high school students.

• 30,000
About 30,000 people in the United States die by suicide every year.

• 30%
Alcoholism is a factor in about 30 percent of all suicide deaths.

• 60%
Over 60 percent of people who die by suicide are estimated to suffer from major depression, with no other psychiatric or physical illness,  alcoholism, and half of those with alcoholism have depression as well.


source : youthnoise, google