Research Paper on:
Overview of Suicide

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20 years in the United States, suicide rates have greatly increased especially in the group of young adolescence. The various types of suicide, altruistic, egoistic, and anomic have been somewhat  successful in providing reasons for suicide. Altruistic suicides may be used to best describe the increasing car accidents that are believed to be suicides leaving insurance available to the survivors  of the victim. Egoistic, a complete feeling of hopelessness and low self worth is used in most explanations of teen suicide while anomic, a feeling of disorientation brought on by  mental stress could best be used to explain suicide as a result of recent unemployment. Various factors are used to describe the rates of suicide and most recently the United  States government has issued a plan to help combat the increasing rate of suicide by setting up preventive programs in schools, work places, and social settings across the country.  Over the past 100 years, suicide has been a well debated topic of interest in the field of sociology. French sociologist Emil Durkheim first  penned a work on suicide and related it to social pressures and environmental issues. He related the problem in terms of the characteristics found in the groups that had the  highest incidence of suicides and used his results to define a theory that the incidence of suicide increases with the lower degree of social interaction an individual has within his  society (Durkeim, 1951). Since the introduction of suicide into the sociological medium, sociologists have studied the area of suicide and found that there are several influential factors in suicide rate.  Durkheim described an egoistic suicide as when one an individual feels he or she is no longer needed occurs more often in an industrialized area. This type along with other