Psychiatric disorders, physical illness, functional impairment, and stressful life events, if not taken care of properly can be major factors as well as to why elderly people commit suicide. “Psychiatric disorders make up to 90% of all elderly suicide” (Torresani, 2014). Psychiatric disorders if not medicated properly can make a person overdose on prescription pills, or suffocate themselves. Physical illnesses such as cancer can be beyond painful. When you are diagnosed with it late in your life, treatments don’t really work and patients do not want to go through chemotherapy and waste money and time they don’t have, so they commit suicide to get rid of the pain and make sure loved ones don’t have to watch them
Psychiatric disorders, physical illness, functional impairment, and stressful life events, if not taken care of properly can be major factors as well as to why elderly people commit suicide. “Psychiatric disorders make up to 90% of all elderly suicide” (Torresani, 2014). Psychiatric disorders if not medicated properly can make a person overdose on prescription pills, or suffocate themselves. Physical illnesses such as cancer can be beyond painful. When you are diagnosed with it late in your life, treatments don’t really work and patients do not want to go through chemotherapy and waste money and time they don’t have, so they commit suicide to get rid of the pain and make sure loved ones don’t have to watch them