Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for ages 10-24

·         Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for ages 10-24. Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for college-age youth and ages 12-18.  More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED.  This is too much of our population, these people could have been great to our society and we are allowing them to lose their lives right in front of our faces. Every life matters regardless of who you are and what you have done. This has to be stopped, and I feel everyone should handle things differently because no one has the same struggle. We don’t know what someone is going through if we don’t take the time to find out. We have to start helping each other, because there is always someone struggling with something. Sometimes people issues tend to become overwhelming when too much has built up. I have been a witness to multiple struggles and there is always a worst story then yours. I know the feeling when you feel like it’s easier to die then it is to live and no one deserves to feel that way no matter what.