About suicides in adolescents

For sociologists, the ambiguity of phenomena, the presence of many explanatory laws and conflicting factors imposed on each other - the general rule. But when we touch the theme of suicides, this multiplicity must subside.

The root theme of sociology is the reduction of suicide as a social phenomenon. Just a large -scale view - not the analysis of each individual tragedy, but the amazing stability of numbers (per 100 thousand inhabitants in a particular country), proportions (by age, between men and women) and versatility (all social categories, rich and poor) - forces the sociological image of thinking. At least they taught me so.

Therefore, somewhat to the limit of cold and cynical remarks.

• Sentences are illiterate and unpleasant, which connect the level of suicides of adolescents with the poverty or workaholism of parents.
• The statements about the “sharp surge” of suicide indicators in Russia for N in recent years are illiterate and irresponsible. The numbers are now open by years and decades, you can check that they have not changed significantly.
• One of the most important thoughts of Emil Durkheim, the classic of sociology, the author of the famous book “Suicide: Sociological Etude”, is as follows: the very definition of suicide is historical, the methodology of the separation of accidents and suicides is conditional.
• That is why Nepal is both in world leaders and in world outsiders at the same time in different tables of suicide statistics [1]. This thought can be brought to the limit. Gary Stanley Becker, the Nobel laureate in economics, generally proposed to consider any death in a certain sense of suicide - we are informed about the consequences of the lifestyle, the regime of the day, the consumption of certain products, the dangers of drunk driving, the risks when crossing the road in the darkness.
• Under serious changes in external conditions, changes in the indicators of fatalistic, selfish and altruistic suicides are unlikely, but we will make a reservation - the number of attempts will change little. Success in bringing to the end depends on the state of medical practice.
• Serious fluctuations relate to anomic suicide, and, as many critics of the article in Novaya Gazeta rightly noted, just the Internet test replaces normal teenagers, saves them from an anomic impasse.
• In other words: during an attempt to seriously change the attitude to the behavior of a particular teenager who is already on the verge, we may be saved. At the moment, and maybe in general we will prevent such his departure from life.
• But with the mass reproduction of such efforts on the country's scale, parents of other teenagers, now far from the extreme state, will push their children to this line. Do not follow the advice of Mariengof, because one of the followers can never forgive this for himself. Just be people and behave with children humanly.
• And yes, of course, as a parent of a 12-year-old guy, I was enchanted by this text and in every possible way convinced myself that I carried out all the preliminary work on relations with the “VKontakik” as best he could.

1. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_countries_by_suicide_rate