How come suicide has turned into such a joke these days?

Question

So many people (especially young people) think its okay to say they are going to kill themselves whenever they want attention? I know sum girls that will cut their wrists and then show eachother ??? Does anyone else know anybody like this??

Answer 1

It's called ATTENTION WHORE!

It's classified by cutting, usually taken by the public to be "OMG! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THAT TO YOURSELF!" when in fact that is the response a young person wants.

Teenagers don't really comprehend what's going to happen after suicide or after they cut. How many adults look back and think, "man! I wish I wouldn't have been so stupid!" Or what if suicide backfires and you end up crippled for the rest of your life?

Suicide isn't a joke--it's a lame escape from reality.

Answer 2

My personal opinion is I believe people use suicide threats more these days because there are more professional services out there to deal with this kind of thing. I have studied at University and what we are told is to take every single threat of suicide seriously. So we actually give the person the attention they want for the simple reason they could actually succeed. Lots of attention seeking behaviour does end up in death by accident. They cut the wrong way, they took too many pill, they expected a friend to come, but they didnt. I do believe the majority of threats of suicide are all bluff and is, in a lot of cases, a need for attention. But how do you know the ones who are serious and the ones who arent....can we really take that risk? Cutting is a little different to suicide...I have known many self harmers who dont want to commit suicide...they just cut....and I think that is because it takes away the emotional pain they are feeling and turns it into physical pain which is a lot easier to cope with.

Young people these days are very different to when I was young. We had rules to live by, we respected our parents, we didnt hang around in gangs and try to hurt people. We were afraid of the Law....we werent game to do anything because we would have been in serious trouble with our parents and with the Law. The Law has changed so dramatically that young people have all the rights in the world, but unfortunatly responsibility isnt taught to them. The judicial system will let young offenders off...so they have been taught nothing about consequences for certain actions. When I was young and I mentioned suicide I would have been carted off to some psychiatric hospital and probably committed. It is common place for young kids today to use suicide as attention. And I think the real bottom line is that young people dont have a very positive life. When I was young I could walk into a job one day and walk into another the next. I had greater prospects for a career and there was hardly any unemployment. Violence is running rampant, drugs are more prevelant...so a young person these days havent got a real lot of hope. I think this is a very good question but cannot be answered in one or two lines because the problems young people face these days were practically non-existent when I was younger and suicide/threats of suicide while they did exist did not happen very often at all. And people who cut themselves were non-existent. I think it has to do with society in general and we are more accepting of things like that. We give the person the attention, so they will continue to do the stuff that gives them the attention. I think it also has to do with boredom and having too much time on their hands. I dont know what the answer is because if we ignore just one suicide threat and that person ends up killing themselves, then I dont know if I could live with myself knowing I should have taken it seriously. Sometimes I would love to say to someone...just do it, get it over with, but that could lead to devestating affects because the person just may do it.

Answer 3

It's the Internet. Self-injury used to be a girl's secret shame... it was mine. There was no internet and no one to confide in. I just knew that when I self-injured, it helped me deal with all the negative emotions I had, but had no where to lay them down.

Along came the Internet (over 20 years after my initial self-injuring) and lots and lots of "Cutting" websites to "help" people cope and know they were not alone. Many were helped by these sites... and many teens showed up there and made self-injury "trendy" among the "Goths" and such. I hung out at one such forum for a while... it was helpful to a point, but the teacher in me could not really share my pain, without feeling I might be leading someone astray... so I gave up on those types of sites.

Suicide is not only, NOT a joke these days, but I take every single mention of it seriously... to the point of reporting "mentioners" to counsellors, parents, and whomever else teachers have to notify. If it was a joke, the joking stops. If not, then hopefully a suicide has been prevented.

Answer 4

to me suicide has become almost over-rated, a lot of people say they're going to kill themselves & cut themselves but really i think they just need to talk to someone about the problems in their life
i think though that sometimes people feel like it's the only pain they can control, cause they have problems at home or they dont get enough attention there. i think the girls that show each other might be emo though & you are not the only one who knows people like this, most other young people do

Answer 5

Because the average person these days cares too much about his or herself to pay enough attention to the people that need it (i.e . suicidal teens and the like).

Plus so many youths now resort to this claim that it has become a sort of "Boy crying wolf" for them - they just do it to garner attention from anyone who will give it, but then when they really mean it, people are now desensitized enough to look the other way, and the teen kills him or herself.

Answer 6

no im old