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Suicide takes the lives of thousands of teens each year. Studies done around the country showed that about four hundred to 2 million teenagers attempt suicide. The National Center for Health Statistics reported that the average number of successful teenage suici ....

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.... statistics offer a lot of fact about suicides, but they do not tell why someone wants to die. I believe that many teenagers who attempt and those who commit suicide are really crying out for help. They want the unhappiness and strains in their live to end, but they really do not want their lives to end. When I was in High School at the age of fifteen, I tried to commit suicide. I was looking for a way out of my sad, impoverish, lonely, single-parent life. I thought that the easiest and most convenient way out was to commit suicide. That way I would no longer have to deal with the pressures of home and school. In the end I survive the ov ....