|
|
Article: Suicide over the Life Span
- Article from:
- Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
- Author:
-
;
|
Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2002 The Gale Group Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Suicide over the Life Span
ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTHS
Brian L. Mishara
CHILDREN
Brian L. Mishara
THE ELDERLY
Diego De Leo
ADOLESCENTS AND YOUTHS
Suicides of the young, those who have most of life's highlights to experience, are profoundly challenging to cultural systems. Considerable soul searching was triggered in the United States when, between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s, the suicide rates of its ten- to fourteen-year-olds nearly tripled while doubling among those aged fifteen to nineteen. Although the suicide rates for adolescents in the United States and Canada are lower than for other age groups because adolescents die infrequently from physical illnesses, by the end of ...