There are no known reasons or triggers for why teenagers might want to commit suicide or even attempt with their friends. The signals might go unseen because they are hanging out with their friends and doing all the normal things that a teenager would do, but they are attempting suicide at the same time. In suicide clusters, it is not always that mental illness is present, but rather that all their friends are doing it. Peer pressure plays a huge role in suicide clusters. In large groups of teenagers, it is hard to see that suicide is an issue. Although anyone can attempt, or even commit suicide, girls are more likely (Kadish 8).
In society today, high school students have the most pressure on their shoulders to get good grades, so they can continue their education and get a well-paying job. They also want to be in the "in-crowd". It is proven that teenagers that do not have much of a social life are more likely to attempt suicide (Gardner 108). This is true because when a teenager does not have many friends, they do not go out and they sit home and think of the bad things going on in their life. When teenagers are in high school, they have to make friends so that they have something to do on weekends and so they have a social life. When teenagers are in college, they do not have to make such and effort since everyone is in the same position as a freshman. In 1996, more high school teenagers died of suicide then of any other manner (Kadish 18). Some accidental deaths are now being counted as suicides (Nazario 2). Deaths of teenagers need to be analyzed carefully because suicide was one of the leading causes or death in recent years.
In the teenage years of a individual life, they go through many different obstacles. They have many decisions to make and some can change their lives forever. Most parents think that if their teenager has a problem, that they will come to them to talk. This is not how it is.