Just because a person does not react the same way to the college experience or to stress as you do does not make them wrong, it simply means they are human and have their own ideas. Do not judge your friends, but try to help them instead. In conclusion, student suicide is a growing problem in our country today, for a variety of reasons. Students are under more pressure than ever to perform, fit in with peers, and get good grades, and many come from broken or abusive homes, that can add to the pressure and lead to depression and thoughts of death. Finally, some, like the shooter at Virginia Tech, are mentally unbalanced, and have shown signs of suicidal and violent thoughts that could have been acted upon if only they had been recognized. The Washington Post reporters continue, "Because Cho did well in school, his mother did not seem very determined to get treatment for him" (Cho & Gardner, 2007. p. 4). This shows...

Student suicide is a serious issue, and if your college campus does not support an anti-suicide organization, it is time to begin one, before another student dies by their own hand.
References

Caruso, K. (2007). College student suicide. Retrieved 20 Dec. 2007 from Suicide.org Web site: http://www.suicide.org/college-student-suicide.html.

Cho, D. & Gardner, a. (2007). An isolated boy in a world of strangers. Retrieved 20 Dec. 2007 from the Washington Post.com Web site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/20/AR2007042002366.html.1-4.

Davis, J.M., & Brock, S.E. (2002). Chapter 13 Suicide. In Handbook of crisis counseling, intervention, and prevention in the cchools, Sandoval, J. (Ed.) (2nd ed., pp. 273-297). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence…