To start off, after brainstorming and discussing a list of possible research topic ideas in our first meeting, our group came to an agreement and opt to investigate “suicide” in a more in-depth manner since this issue has become more and more prevalent throughout these few decades. This is especially evident because this issue has become a material often broadcast by the mass media. As a matter of fact, Malaysia, one of the “Asian Tiger” economies, has enjoyed remarkable growth over the last few decades, with industrialization, agriculture and tourism playing leading roles in making our beloved country to prosper. Disappointedly, in contrast, despite there is a relatively positive environmental record, Malaysia is also encountering a serious bane of suicide cases as the suicidal rate which caused the massive death toll to increase has rampantly skyrocketed to a point of no return and this issue is in fact a big worrisome among people from all walks of life.

 

  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), suicide is defined as death induced by self-directed injurious conduct or behaviour with any intent to die, in a sense to portray the outcome of undesirable things happening or several things going wrong all at once. By the same token, it may be said without fear of contradiction that a suicide attempt often occurs when someone causes harm to themselves with the intent of ending their lives but eventually does not die as a result of their actions (CDC, 2013).   Hence, the question that deserves a good answer is what would happen if the suicide attempters do not die as they wish to? To answer this question, we hold the view that suicide attempters who survive may have a ramification of devastating injuries that seem to have long-term repercussions on their health for sure.

 

  Another noteworthy research performed by American Foundation for Suicide Prevention discovered that depression is the most substantial contributor to the rise in suicide occurrences, accounting for over half of all suicides (Schimelpfening, 2021). Here are our two cents' worth of opinions on this statement. It is our view that depression can lead people to experience intense emotional pain and a loss of hope, leaving them unable to see any other approach to alleviate their suffering other than to commit suicide. To us, there is nothing more distasteful than knowing the fact that teen suicides are escalating at an alarming pace, outpacing all the age group.

 

To further elucidate this point, the core reason we chose to examine this topic is that we want to show our concerns towards Malaysians especially teenagers who are having mental health issues as we believe the rise of suicide cases and mental health disorders are closely intertwined. Without a second doubt, we actually know it is typically a tough thing to understand why someone is committing suicide or having suicidal thoughts unless they explicitly tell us so but we genuinely hope the immediate actions are planned and have been blue-printed in order to eradicate this eyesore in our beloved country, Malaysia.

 

 

    To sum everything up, we are all on the same wavelength, believing that there is an urgent need to further explore all the possible factors contributing to Malaysians' heightened suicide rates. This is because it may be somewhat shocking for us to see that the global annually rate of self-reported suicide attempts is estimated to be around 3 per 1,000 persons (Bilsen,2018). In this context, we hold the view that life is precious, thus everyone should spread love and care for oneself more especially their loved ones or even better to the people they don’t know in a way to make the society a friendlier and kinder place to live.