Suicides : Committed or UNCommitted
By: Bhrigu Parashar
Tags: Suicide, Status Of Women Suicides, Suicides In Indian States, Suicides In India

Suicides : Committed or UNCommitted

Introduction:

Suicides are on rise even with the greater advancement in every aspect of life .We have now in our hands the device with which we can communicate not only with people sitting in our town but also can communicate with people who is sitting in the another corner of the world.

There are numerous factors which has led to suicides in India and the number of cases are uneven across the states. Reasons behind committing Suicides by the people in India are numerous , some of them are Failure in Examination, Poverty, Physical Abuse, Professional Problem and Ideological Causes etc. which varies across Gender, Age Group and causes as mentioned in the data.

Insights to the Analysis Done:

I: State in India having maximum suicides reported -

You will be shocked to see that the state with one of the largest areas and also rich resources wise, which is “Maharashtra” has reported with maximum number of suicides cases. Above all , the top 5 states with respect to natural and human development index that are — Maharashtra, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka , also top the suicide charts.

II: Major Cause of Suicide committed by females in India -

Family which is regarded as the emotional support system to its members but how ironical is that the topmost reason for suicides reported was due to the family problems. And also Other prolonged illness and mental illness are the factors of committing suicides.

Causes of Suicides by Females in India(2001–2012)

III: Does the emotional support of partner reduces the rate of suicide -

This picture is also very dismal of the fact that the people who are married committed maximum number of suicides although it is followed by the people who never married , but the difference of number of suicides committed by married people and unmarried people is very much.

Suicides committed by people wrt social status

IV: Status of Children and Elderly -

West Bengal is the state which is not able to provide the support system to the children with the age group of 0–14 years and hence it has witnessed maximum number of suicides in this age group.

State with maximum child (0–14 years) suicides rate

And if we consider the case of Elderly with the age group of 60 years and above then it is the state of Kerala which has witnessed maximum number of suicides. It is very much disturbing to see that the state with excellent parameters with education and medical support system have witnessed this trend.

State with maximum elder people (60 + years ) suicides

V: Does Education help in curbing suicide rate ?

At least we have some data which shows that with imparting more education we can prevent the suicide rate among the people in India. We can see from this graph below that maximum suicides are committed by the people who have acquired only primary education and least suicides are committed by the people which have acquired education of Post graduation and above.

Suicides committed by people having different education background

Conclusion:

There are plenty of takeaways from this analysis which tells us that today we are lacking in providing the emotional support in each other lives and merely physical presence whether family members or partners is not enough specially in today’s world of unbearable stress and competition. Providing education is one of the way to tackle with this problem of suicide but we need to discover other pathways like providing support to people which would enlighten their lives so that they feel empowered not powered. Each state in India possess unique challenges hence in order to lower suicide rate the unique challenges must be met both in terms of policy making and implementations