Teenage Suicide Suicide is intentional self-inflicted acts that end in death ("Suicide, Compton’s). After a series of traumatic events, normal coping abilities can be pushed over the edge; the result may be suicide. In each year, an average of 30,000 suicide deaths occur in the United States. It is estimated that 5,000 of those suicides are committed by teenagers (SAVE, 2). One major reason that the suicide rate among teenagers is so high is that the teenage …showed first 75 words of 1015 total…

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