Unfortunately, the year gone by would be known not because it brought some thing good, but what it left behind for us - the shocking figure of one million suicides with a life ending every 40 seconds followed by 20 suicidal attempts every minute.

All this puts a serious question mark over humankind’s existence and putting forth question - where are we heading towards, any idea… The gravity of the problem is palpable form the very fact, which doles out shocking figure of 6,045 suicidal deaths occurred in the UK and Ireland alone in the year of 2005.

No doubt, suicide rate has registered fall of over 9.5 percent over the last decade. Still, it gives nothing much worth gloating over, as it is still a leading cause of death for young adults, especially those between the ages 15 to 24.

Defining suicide as one of the fast growing trends won’t be wrong, as this so-called trend of suicide is no longer restricted to a few countries, but has turned out to be a global trend, while registering a shocking boom of 60% suicide rates over the last 45 years. Experts have associated suicides with depression and failures rising mainly due to the cutthroat competition of today. Moreover, there was a time when suicide was considered just a problem of developed countries like the US where more than 30,000 suicides are committed each year and 5,000 of these are teenagers. However, in the last few years, it seems to have grasped developing nations like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand… Where suicide graph goes like this:

• Bangladesh: The number of suicides increased to 984 per month during 1992-1993

• India: Occupies the second highest rate of suicides in the Region

• Indonesia: The number of suicides increased from 112 in 1996 to 146 in 1998

• Sri Lanka: Deaths in the past 15 years estimated up to 106000 — twice the number due to war

These evidences are enough to show that how the so-called trend of suicide is even in these developing countries. In the present scenario, it becomes very important to put a check over this so-called trend of suicide, which is possible, to some extent, however, by taking strong measures like:

• Reducing access to the means of suicide

• Enhancing access to mental disorder’s treatments

• Training primary health care workers

And above all, by teaching people the lesson of contentment because when they will learn to remain content with what they have, the graph of suicide would automatically come down.

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