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Emile Durkjeim and Teenage Suicide

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Fact: Kids who have the right friends and a bright future in front of them commit suicide. Fiction: Music, movies, and other forms of media do not influence teenagers in any way, shape, or form. Fact: Music, movies, and other forms of media are influencing teenagers to commit suicide. Every year more than 4,000 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 24 commit suicide and another 400,000-attempt suicide; the number of suicides may be even higher because families who report the suicides as accidents or murders (Klagsburn 16) hide many suicides...
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"Suicide now ranks as the third leading cause of death among people ages 15 to 24, trailing only accidents and homicides" (Worsnop 371). Over the past four decades, teenage suicide rose a staggering 200 percent (Waters 49). "Of all the suicides studied among people under 25, nearly two-thirds of them were committed with guns, teenagers who committed suicide by hanging themselves ranked second, and poisoning ranked third" (Colburn 5...
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