A look at Suicide: experiences and experiences of university students

Abstract

Suicide is present in our daily lives, although most of the time we choose to ignore it. The phenomenon has been a troubling problem and a public health issue. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 800,000 people die each year committing suicide and that the most prevalent age group is between 15 and 29 years. The university, concentrating young people in this age group, often houses the unveiling of suffering of its students, represented in the expression of ideation or suicide attempt. Thinking about this, the present work allows to understand through a phenomenological-existential vision, as university students of the health area of a specialized academic unit of the interior of Rio Grande do Norte deal with issues that involve suicide. Our study was carried out through a qualitative research, in which four FACISA-UFRN students were interviewed *, the interviews were conducted individually with the following trigger question: How is it for you to be a student of a health course in a campus of interior of the state? Our research has shown that the experiences and experiences of university students go beyond the bureaucratic and territorial delimitations of the university. We find reports related to the intense demand for studies; difficulty adapting to the academic environment; difficulties related to the change of their city of origin; among others. Therefore, thinking and understanding the attempts and ideations of suicide within the academic context goes beyond understanding the phenomenon itself, pervades a whole historical and singular horizon of each university.