Suicide is a public health problem world over. It is not entirely a psychiatric disorder even though most of the suicides have a psychiatric or disturbed emotional background. Suicide is a preventable condition in many. In fact this year’s theme of World Suicide Prevention Day on September tenth is Preventing Suicide: Reaching Out and Saving Lives.
Simplest meaning of suicide is taking-out one’s life by self. There are many definitions of suicide and almost all are riddled with controversy Be it empire builder, royalty, thinker, writer, artist, food-provider farmer, nobody is immune to it. Some of the well-known persons who resorted to suicide include Robert Clive, Ernest Hemingway, Cleopatra, Guru Dutt, Vincent van Gogh, Hitler, Hans Berger, Socrates, etc. As the geriatric population in our country is increasing and families becoming nuclear, suicide rate in that population is on…
