Annotated+Bibliography

Anderson, Jan "//Chasing Death: Losing a Child to Suicide//"
 * Book (Non-Fiction)**
 * In this book, Jan Anderson talks about how her son commited suicide. She wants other people who have gone through losing a child, sibling or parent to know that they're not the only ones who have gone through such a hard time. Anderson tells some deep secrets of her family throughout the book, and covers topics that other books are scared to touch up on about the reality of suicide.**

Asher, Jay //"Thirteen Reasons Why"// //**Thirteen Reasons Why**// **is about a girl, Hannah Baker, who commits suicide and she leaves behind a few cassette tapes to explain her thirteen reasons for commiting suicide. She leaves the tapes in a shoebox on her crush, Clay's porch, and he is to figure out why he is one of the reasons that she commited suicide. The story is a mystery and you'll be reading in suspense to figure out why this girl took her life.**
 * Book (Fiction)**

Reach Out, [|http://us.reachout.com], March 29th 2011.
 * Website**
 * This website is made for teens by teens. It is a website that allows teens who are thinking about suicide, need information about suicide, or have attempted suicide to be able to get help, reach out or just learn more about the issue. The website is ran from people who have faced this problem themselves or have had friends or family that have committed suicide and want to reach out to help others. There are stories, facts, help lines to call and so much more that this site has to offer, and its just a click away.**

Rubenstein, Sarah. "Elevated Rate of Teen Suicide Stirs Concern." //The Wall Street Journal.// 3 September 2008. 3 April 2011. //<[]>// McCabe, Kathy, "Teen's Suicide prompts a look at Bullying", The Boston Globe, Janurary 10th 2010.
 * Journal Article**
 * In this article, it expresses a great amount of concern with the rising rate of teen suicide and what is causing it. Researchers have gathered alot of information and one contributing factor that is unclear is whether a drop in antidepressant use is what caused the rise in the suicide rate. There are concerns with antidepressant prescriptions and warnings about the prescriptions that are scaring patients and doctors away from using medicines that could help them.**
 * Magazine Article**
 * This article was published in The Boston Globe magazine in 2010. This article is about the death of Phoebe Prince whos family had moved from Ireland to The United States. She attended a new high school and was said to be a stand-out student. She committed suicide after being bullied by classmates. This article suggests how bullying acts as a lead to suicide. This article was published but does not have any comments from Prince's family as to their reactions to the suicide. It also shows how one death affects many people.**
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James, Susan Donaldson, "Teen Commits Suicide Due to Bullying", ABC News, April 2nd 2009.
 * Newspaper Article**
 * Eric Mohat, 17, shot himself in his Ohio home early March due to excessive bullying that teachers and administrators did nothing to stop. Eric was a great theater student that endured name calling, abuse, and teasing for being in theater. One bully was said to have said publicly in class the day Eric committed "Why don't you go home and shoot yourself, no one will miss you," he did. On March 27th Eric's parents sued Mentor High School on the grounds that the school allowed for Eric to be bullied with out any consequences taken place. It was also said that three students prior to Eric in 2007 had also committed suicide because of bullying.**

DrPhilShow. "Jordan Tells Dr. Phil Why He Wanted to End it All." //Youtube.// March 11, 2010. March 18, 2011. [].
 * Multimedia**
 * In this video a young man named Jordan Burham talks with Dr. Phil about his experience with attempting suicide when he was 18 years old. Now 20 years old, he speaks about suicide prevention at various college campuses. Burham speaks about suicide prevention with Dr. Phil and some different ways we can change the way we ask and listen to people when we ask how someone is feeling.**

Forever by Papa Roach
 * Other**
 * This is a song by a band called Papa Roach. They are a Rock band that for the most part sing about life aspects. In the song Forever it talks about a guy that is in love with this girl but no matter the love and support he shows for her, she continues to turn him down. So out of desperation he commits suicide, but as he is committing suicide she is on her way to apologize to him and say that she wants to go out with him.**