You can never get to the source of the problem, because by the time it is recognized, it has already spread like a virus. Is depression bad? About 97 percent of those reporting depression also reported that their work, home life and relationships suffered as a result. The answer is yes, depression is not only grounds for the far off prospective of suicide, but is almost guaranteed to diminish your overall performance and on look of life. This I know for a fact.
Some may accuse my arguments of a slippery slope, something that causes another thing to go wrong, and so on until the link between the first and last thing are totally unrelated. This is not true, my point is we can not attack one problem and expect cure our problems. For example if we cured depression and took away all firearms suicide would not be destroyed.
What we need to do is disable and discontinue any and all negative behavior. Obviously this task is impossible. The strategy seems to be attack the leading cause of deaths, or take on the bigger monster. This would seem the logical and smart way to safe lives but I have another perspective.
Laws are imposed to make people wear seatbelts to save their own lives. This law is ridicules, why should we impose life on those who do not want it? Suicide is one of the most devastating things that can happen to someone you love. Not only does this take away the chance of you ever seeing them again, but it also brings up the question; could you have saved them?
What life comes down to is not what most people are trying to accomplish. It is human nature to climb the ladder and attempt to get higher and higher. This is wear we are wrong, there is enough room for us all and there is not point of scrambling to the top. When your true person shows through is that time you see someone slipping. That time when someone below us is trying to hold on but they are losing will. What we need to do is drop down a few feet and keep them on. What we need to do is talk to that depressed person and help out the person contemplating suicide. We need to lower there arm and take the gun away from there heads and show them what life is about,
Living.
