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1 Kyle Prosser and Austin Vander Heiden Suicide’s Victims

2 Theme Our theme is: Teenage suicide creates more than one victim

3 Theme in Romeo & Juliet "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight/ Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath/ What further woe conspires against mine age” (5.3.210-212). Lady Montague died from a broken heart from Romeo’s suicide. “What's here? A cup, closed in my truelover's hand/ Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end/ O churl! Drunk all, and left no friendly drop/ To help me after? I will kiss thy lips/ Haply some poison yet doth hang on them/ To make me doe with a restorative/ Thy lips are warm/... Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger/ This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die” (5.3.161-170). Juliet finds Romeo dead, and decides to kill herself also. “O child, O child! My soul, and not my child/ Dead art thou--alack, my child is dead/ And with my child my joys are buried” (4.5.62-64). When Juliet is found “dead”, Lord Capulet is heartbroken and says he has no more joys in life now that Juliet is gone.

4 Research  Our research question was: How does teenage suicide affect others? We came up with this question and our theme with our topic, teenage suicide and depression. We thought, we should think about effects of suicide instead of causes.

5 Suicide Causing Suicide When a teen commits suicide, it can cause another, such as a family member or a friend or even a complete stranger, to also commit suicide. “Almost two years later, her husband, Donald, also committed suicide, because he couldn't cope with the death of their son” (Scheible 1). After a teen committed suicide, his father who couldn’t cope with the grief also killed himself. A publicized suicides and tragedies can also cause peaks in suicide in an area.

6 Suicide Can Help Others When a loved one commits suicide, it can cause them to go out and help others. That is what this father did. “Beyond those keepsakes, Mr. Flatt has sought to preserve Jason's memory through the foundation he started months after his son's death. The Jason Foundation teaches young people through its suicide- prevention curriculum to speak up when a friend even fantasizes about ending it all” (Portner 1). Mr. Flatt started a foundation to help others not to commit suicide and prevent it.

7 Suicide Victims and the Future Most suicide victims don’t think about their future when committing suicide. They may think things can’t get better when they surely will. "I know I'll survive. Some things may get easier, but some will always be very difficult. There will still be moments when I'll wonder what he would have been doing now. "There will always be an empty space that nothing else can fill” (Scheible 1). This woman's son killed himself and they will never know what he would be doing now and what his life would be like. She will always be tortured by that fact.

8 Suicide Can Keep People Wondering When a teen commits suicide and one doesn’t know why, they can keep wondering for the rest of their lives as to why they ever did it. “John Flatt, 23, said he has spent the past two years wondering what prompted his younger brother--and not him--to take that fatal step” (Portner 1). This mans brother killed himself and he will never know what drove him to do such a thing. He will always be tortured by the wondering.

9 Our Theme and Romeo & Juliet Our theme relates to Romeo & Juliet because when they commit suicide, their family and friends are all affected. Romeo’s mother dies of heartbreak, Juliet’s father feels like he no longer has joys, and they cause each other to kill themselves.

10 Our Theme and Today’s Society Our theme is still very much existent in today’s society. Teenage suicide affects many teen’s families, friends, and even strangers. ”Every case is a tragedy, and not only for the person who dies. For every suicide, at least six other people are intimately affected, according to the American Association of Suicidology. Family, friends and co-workers can feel the pain for the rest of their lives. Others outside that circle, sometimes even strangers, can be touched by suicide” (Scheible 1). Teenage suicide affects more people then a teenager would think.

11 Thesis Our thesis is: Teenage suicide affects many people such as friends, family, and even touches strangers.


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