Benisha hamal
Kathmandu,2009/7/17
Different causes underlie suicide, some of the main ones being depression, drug abuse, anxiety, personality disorder, etc. According to WHO in 1999, 10 people attempt suicide for every 100,000 of the general population. In Nepal, women below the age of 30 are the main at-risk population for suicide . Living all day in the confines of the house can lead to the mind becoming narrow and the tendency to make mountains out of molehills. As a result, some impulsively decide to take their own lives without thinking of the future of their children. The incidence of suicide among children and men, in addition to women, is not new, just less frequent. Suicide attempts by women are double those of men. According to the Bir Hospital, about 40 percent of their patients come in just to recover from a failed suicide attempt. Analyzing suicides in Nepal, Dr. Manish Kumar, an doctor in the ER of Norvic Hospital, said that people in the mountainous regions commit suicide by hanging; in the Terai, (plains area), poison is the preferred means; and in urban areas, drugs. According to the statistics, most Nepalese suicides have simply chosen to hang themselves. In Nepal, yearly population growth overall is only 3 percent, but for suicide the figure is 10 percent, which indicates a serious problem. Life is important to every human being. To make it valuable, some dare to do extraordinary things, and some waste their lives in suicide. Suicide may be a private matter, but the reasons for it are a problem in all nations.
