Regardless of the way one approaches the thought of suicide people will always see the act as

an act of weakness, but what happens when it is believed that suicide is the result of someone who is
mentally unfit? Suicide has always been interpreted as a result of someone who is mentally ill or
unstable, but no one understands what living with a mental illness is like. They automatically assume
that because someone has a mental disease, that they are crazy enough to hurt themselves in a way
that is permanent. The audacity in that statement proves that people do not understand the full depth
of how mental illness affects the brains wavelengths and changes the way people act. In the November
2009 issue, discover takes the readers through a logical pictures of the number of suicide attempts
compared to the number of people who are living with a mental illness. In the article, Mental Illness vs.
Suicide Neuroskeptic effectively uses logos in order to showcase that mental Illness, in no way shape or
form, correlates with suicide.
Within the first few sentences Neuroskeptic explains that there is a higher suicide rate in
people who are living with a mental illness. Logos is then used to graph the suicide rates and the mental
illness cases and concluded that they did not match up. Japan has the second highest suicide rate, but
one of the lowest rates of mental illnesses, and because this is proven by a graph it shows that
neuroskepic compared the two in a way that has proof behind it. This article is solely based on logos and
without it; it would be nothing.
What many people dont understand is that in order to write a proper article, one must use
logos, ethos or pathos in order to connect with the readers in a way that makes them want to stay and
read the article. His successful use of logos show the readers proof of the actuality of suicide and
mental illness. And because it was effective enough to connect with people who may have tried to
commit suicide or if they are living with a mental illness. The logos part in this article gave it the factual
evidence it needed in order to prove that mental disease does not result in suicide. Without the pictured

graphs that compared mental illness and suicide it would have lost the evidence to prove that they do
not correlate.
Because Neuroskeptic uses logos in a way that supported his article to the point that it has
readers believe that suicide in no way shape or form is because of a mental illness. Without the
successful use of the graphs the article would have been inefficient in explaining the details as to why
they are not because of each other. This article is a prime explain of logos that gets straight down to the
logical facts of the world and not of what people think is the real reason behind suicide. Neuroskeptic
makes the readers rethink the thoughts of why suicide happens and gives them a better understand of
why not all mental illnesses make people go crazy. But then again, maybe we know little about the
prevalence of common mental illness anywhere.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2009/11/25/mental-illness-vs-suicide/

Works Citied
"Mental Illness vs. Suicide." Discover. Discover, 25 Nov. 2009. Web. 07 Oct. 2014.