More attention should be given to the devastation of suicide

It is important to make the information on suicide standout even more in the MTHS newspaper. Reading the article about Joshua Garth Gunderson’s death creates a question that pops up in my mind: why did Joshua commit suicide? From this topic everyone needs to understand that other people around them are having a difficult time. People should know and remember these tragic situations. This article about Joshua should be used to encourage other people to care for others and prevent suicide from happening again. The article lacked information about suicide to make an impact on different age groups of people reading it. There are improvements that could be added to this article.

People who are not related to Joshua are likely to forget this story. Many other troubling situations are happening around the world and this is one out of millions. However, this tragic story is important because people around our community, right now, are having a difficult time. Because of their difficult situation, they do harmful actions like suicide.

Also, this article has little information about Joshua’s death. It mentions a lot about his achievements and options or feelings of people who actually know him, but it is likely that people will focus on the information about his achievements instead of remembering about his death. More background info on a topic will make the information stand out and if it is something important, it will cause people to take action wanting to get involve with the topic.

In this case, Joshua’s achievements stand out and there is nothing for the reader to take action about this topic. It is likely that people like myself will forget about this tragic information because it does not have any thing to do with me. The article does not cause me to want to take action in doing anything about the problem about of suicide. It did not explain how it happened or how to prevent other horrible situations like this to occur again.

The editor needs to gather information about why suicides happen. He or she can get the information by asking the family member, or if it’s too personal then the editor can look up the information online about teenage suicides. The original article is already good, but adding more information this story will get more attention from the readers. Some information could be from websites or charts about teenage suicide.

Hopefully, everyone from all different age groups will start reading this article and take action by preventing this trouble situation from happening again. Even adults will read this story about a teenager and have an impact because even adult suicides happen. Not just students reading the school’s newspaper for fun or interested in other articles like sports. However, we cannot forget about other deaths that happen too, like Keagan Starkel’s death. I’m sure that if there is more information on the cause of suicide then this article will impact people even more.

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