Suicide a curse of the educated in India - Second leading cause of death among young adults

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:ummm, like bad roads and flouting traffic rules is the cause of road accidents where the "cause" can be redressed, maybe the high suicide rate among the educated young has a "cause" that can be redressed?

Merlot Daruwala wrote:This is termination of one's own life by choice, quite unlike the other causes of death listed in that chart. So why should this be viewed as a problem and a curse??

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:
the above study will be published in lanclet. of relevance is:

The research has also revealed a sharp regional contrast with suicide rates in the southern states up to 10 times higher than in the north. The number of suicides per 100,000 people in a year (for the age group 15 to 69 years) ranged from 6.3 in Bihar to 66.3 in Kerala, and from 2.2 in Punjab to 39.7 in Tamil Nadu.

Maria S wrote:In the US, suicide is still the third leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 25.

*The difference between other deaths..is that [b]suicide is preventable.

Natalia Romanova wrote:Now this brings me to the next question, 'do animals commit suicide?'

kinnera wrote: The reason suicide rates are high in the southern states when compared to the northern could be because there are more educated youth in the south than in the north.

Natalia Romanova wrote:i was told part of kerala's suicide rate is coz of this mandatory dowry system there. need to know how many of those 'young adults' are women.

Jeremiah Mburuburu wrote:

Natalia Romanova wrote:i was told part of kerala's suicide rate is coz of this mandatory dowry system there. need to know how many of those 'young adults' are women.

to my knowledge, the dowry system of kerala is not oppressive; i have not heard of newly-married women being threatened or doused with kerosene and set afire because the dowry they brought in was felt to be inadequate.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:

Maria S wrote:In the US, suicide is still the third leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 25.

i see. i did not know this.

*The difference between other deaths..is that suicide is preventable.

i suppose it is when it is not related to treatment resistant depression or incurable illness.

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:

Maria S wrote:In the US, suicide is still the third leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 25.

i see. i did not know this.

*The difference between other deaths..is that suicide is preventable.

i suppose it is when it is not related to treatment resistant depression or incurable illness.

oh, i am sorry. i forgot we were talking about young, educated adults. in those cases suicide can be prevented almost always.

kinnera wrote:

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:
the above study will be published in lanclet. of relevance is:

The research has also revealed a sharp regional contrast with suicide rates in the southern states up to 10 times higher than in the north. The number of suicides per 100,000 people in a year (for the age group 15 to 69 years) ranged from 6.3 in Bihar to 66.3 in Kerala, and from 2.2 in Punjab to 39.7 in Tamil Nadu.

The study revealed that suicide rated are high among the educated. The stress levels could be high in this group (stress to be academically successful, to get a job, etc) and hence the high levels. The reason suicide rates are high in the southern states when compared to the northern could be because there are more educated youth in the south than in the north.

pravalika nanda wrote:

kinnera wrote:

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:
the above study will be published in lanclet. of relevance is:

The research has also revealed a sharp regional contrast with suicide rates in the southern states up to 10 times higher than in the north. The number of suicides per 100,000 people in a year (for the age group 15 to 69 years) ranged from 6.3 in Bihar to 66.3 in Kerala, and from 2.2 in Punjab to 39.7 in Tamil Nadu.

The study revealed that suicide rated are high among the educated. The stress levels could be high in this group (stress to be academically successful, to get a job, etc) and hence the high levels. The reason suicide rates are high in the southern states when compared to the northern could be because there are more educated youth in the south than in the north.

** let's not romanticize education or people lucky enough to secure an education. i mean who the hell is more likely to get employed, the uneducated or the educated? anyhow amongst indinas education doesn't really change things a great deal so i think it's a non-factor wrt suicides. these supposedly educated indians, they still go to the astrologer, pick up their dowries, marry the fair, want to see your cv before they see you for a cup of coffee, drop their banana peels in the middle of the street, don't get up to give their seat to some awwa who may be carrying a basketful of fish on her head, don't know how to ask a woman out, get numb between the ears when they "encounter" a white woman et cetera et cetera.

** it could be due to subtle genetic problems that occur when first cousins or uncles and nieces marry, idiotic parenting, reddy-dowry-setting trends, molestation by kammas behind haystacks, not being able to handle it when their ghazals do not gain appreciation.

**don't take it personally, kinnera. it's caste synthesis day.

pravalika nanda wrote:

kinnera wrote:

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:
the above study will be published in lanclet. of relevance is:

The research has also revealed a sharp regional contrast with suicide rates in the southern states up to 10 times higher than in the north. The number of suicides per 100,000 people in a year (for the age group 15 to 69 years) ranged from 6.3 in Bihar to 66.3 in Kerala, and from 2.2 in Punjab to 39.7 in Tamil Nadu.

The study revealed that suicide rated are high among the educated. The stress levels could be high in this group (stress to be academically successful, to get a job, etc) and hence the high levels. The reason suicide rates are high in the southern states when compared to the northern could be because there are more educated youth in the south than in the north.

** let's not romanticize education or people lucky enough to secure an education. i mean who the hell is more likely to get employed, the uneducated or the educated? anyhow amongst indinas education doesn't really change things a great deal so i think it's a non-factor wrt suicides. these supposedly educated indians, they still go to the astrologer, pick up their dowries, marry the fair, want to see your cv before they see you for a cup of coffee, drop their banana peels in the middle of the street, don't get up to give their seat to some awwa who may be carrying a basketful of fish on her head, don't know how to ask a woman out, get numb between the ears when they "encounter" a white woman et cetera et cetera.

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