"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so
comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the
blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of
self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems
like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V.,
seventeen Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating
suicide is uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why
self-harm has become epidemic, especially in the United States.
What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive,
so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide
Notes, sociologist Terry Williams pores over the writings of a
diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations
behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking
their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban
contexts and across lines of race, class, gender, and sexual
orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with
sociological analysis, adds a clarifying dimension to the fickle
and often frustrating behavior of adolescents. Williams reads
between the lines of his subjects' seemingly straightforward
reflections on alienation, agency, euphoria, and loss, and
investigates how this cocktail of emotions can lead to suicide-or
not. Rather than treating these notes as exceptional examples of
self-expression, Williams situates them at the center of teenage
life, linking them to abuse, violence, depression, anxiety,
religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He
captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of
self-determination and proposes more effective solutions to
resolving the suicide crisis.
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