Honors Program
Midway Honors
Date of Award
5-2018
Thesis Professor(s)
Jon Eliis
Thesis Professor Department
Psychology
Thesis Reader(s)
Jon Ellis
Abstract
Approximately 44,965 people committed suicide in 2016 in the United States, and the rate has been rising for a decade and a half. Suicide has far-reaching consequences which affect not only the victim, but those close to the person as well. For every suicide, an estimated six people are futher traumatized, bringing the current loss survivor estimate to over 5 million. Additionally, suicide costs tax payers about 70 billion dollars annually. Despite outranking homicide as a leading cause of death, the long-standing stigma associated with suicide creates a barrier for open and effective communication about the issue. This paper investigates the changing attitudes about suicide across time, the impact of the interacting factors of gender, age, sexuality, and depression, current suicide myths, the trend of suicide by cop, and discusses future needs for research and effective intervention and prevention.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Burrow, Shawna, "An Overview of Suicide and the Impact of Interacting Factors on Current Suicide Trends" (2018). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 437. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/437
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