BY

RAMSHA NISHAT,HASAN
MUSTUFAT,KANZA AFTAB

B.B.A-III

SUICIDE KARACHI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS

SCHOOL

UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
B.B.A-III
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...........................................................................................................................3
ABSTRACT:...............................................................................................................................................4
TYPES OF SUICIDE :................................................................................................................................7
METHODS OF SUICIDE:........................................................................................................................10
CAUSES OFSUICIDE:.............................................................................................................................13
RELATIONSHIP AND SUICIDE:.......................................................................................................13
MENTAL ILLNESS:............................................................................................................................15
ANXIETY:............................................................................................................................................15
REAL LIFE INCIDENT:......................................................................................................................15
BIPOLAR DISORDER:........................................................................................................................15
DEPRESSION:......................................................................................................................................16
BULLYING:.........................................................................................................................................18
DRUG ADDICTION:............................................................................................................................19
FINANCIAL PROBLEMS....................................................................................................................20
EXISTENTIAL CRISIS:.......................................................................................................................20
SUICIDE NOTES :...................................................................................................................................25
WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY:...............................................................................................26
SUICIDE LOSSSURVIVORS:.................................................................................................................27
SUICIDAL THOUGHTS:.........................................................................................................................27
SUICIDE RATE WORLDWIDE:.............................................................................................................29
SUICIDE RATE IN PAKISTAN:.............................................................................................................29
SUICIDE AND BIBLE:............................................................................................................................30
QURAN AND SUICIDE:..........................................................................................................................30
SUMMARY:.............................................................................................................................................30
CONCLUSION:........................................................................................................................................31

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Acknowledge is due to Karachi University Business School, University of Karachi for support
of this project.

We wish to express our appreciation to Mr. YAMMAN who served as advisor, and has
major influence in guiding us in the correct direction of implementing the project.

We would also like to thanks our friends and colleagues who have been of great help by
providing advices to improve our work.

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ABSTRACT:
Suicide and attempted suicides have been identified as one of the most significant health problem
existing in the world. This Matter has been increasing gradually. It was first started in the
beginning of seventeenth century.
This paper tends to show the social conditions and ecological aspects of the people who
attempted suicide. The data has been collected about several those people who were the sufferers
or victims of any of the causes of suicide and tried to attempt suicide or became a part of any
mass suicide.
The data collected , consists of some major causes of suicide, its types, the different lethal
methods of suicide and some real life incidents.

SUICIDE

Her brush is a razor,

Her canvas, her wrists,

"I deserve the pain."

She shrugs and insists.

One day, the brush is pushed down,

And that cut so deep,

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This girl will fall

In an eternal sleep.

She does not remember how it started

she took his interest for this,

How they are discovered,

The cut is their way of happiness?

Nobody would have imagined that she does.

No one would have considered it.

This girl is always fighting a battle,

Who believes that demons have won.

Her work is all about it,

Its beauty is in the thighs,

and if you look at his old garbage,

You find their letters of goodbye.

When the hour hand ticked 10 on a dark cold night the world for her stopped and colors of life
started to fade. Her room was covered with a red cloud and she seemed to be covered in white
left behind all loved ones inside the way she adapted was easy for her but she never knew how
hard it will be for her loved one.

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TYPES OF SUICIDE:

Emile Durkheim was a French philosopher sociologist he was born on 15 April 1858.he set up
the first European department of sociology.his major sociology work was The division of labor
in society.he also published a book named The rules of sociological method. The importance of
social integration is expressed throughout Durkheim's work.
According to Durkheim,suicide is a social fact, due to the lack of connections between people
(group included) and lack of regulation of behavior, rather than the feelings of individuals and
motivation,suicide is not an individual act, not a personal action. It is caused by a power that is
away from the individual or superior ones. "All kinds of deaths resulting directly or indirectly
from the positive or negative acts of the victim knows the result that produce" Durkheim
emphasizes that the force, which determines suicide, is not psychological, but social. It
concludes that suicide is the result of social disorganization or lack of social integration or social
solidarity.

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TYPES OF SUICIDE :

(1) EGOISTIC SUICIDE:
According to Durkheim,when a person desolate himself or feels that he has no place in society
he ends himself. This type of suicide is of self-centred persons who lacks humanitarian feelings
and have usually isolated themselves from main society stream.

(2) ALTRUISTIC SUICIDE:
This type of suicide occurs when individual victims and the group are too close and near. This
type of suicide results from the over integration of the individual into social proof.

(3) ANOMIC SUICIDE:
This type of suicide is due to some breakdown of social balance, such as suicide after liquidation
or after winning a draw. In other words, the anomic suicide is carried out in a situation that has
arisen quickly.

(4) FATALISTIC SUICIDE:
This suicide type occurs due to overregulation in society. Under the overregulation of society,
when a servant or slave suicide when a sterile woman commits suicide, is an example of
fatalistic suicide.

(5)MASS SUICIDE:
Mass suicide is when group of people committing suicide simultaneously. Basically these are
social groups who are working together. When they are hopeless and depressed. There can be
many reasons of mass suicide. This can be used as political protest or religious protest or when a
group of social people faced failure they commit mass suicide. Or during any war to safe their
life from enemies people use to commit mass suicide. There are many cases in history in which
people have committed mass suicide.

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1- Jonestown in 1978, members of people temple killed themselves. They drink cyanide laced
grape drink. They committed suicide to avoid being fascists and dummies.

2- Towards the end of World War 2 in 1845, in Demmin a town of Germany people committed
suicide to avoid rape and murder by soldiers. Almost 900 people committed suicide by gunshot,
blades, knife, and poison or hanged themselves.

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3- In 1997 police found bodies of 39 people who were members of heaven’s gate, their belief
was that earth is going to be recycled and for reaching this next level they have to kill
themselves. They think that this was not suicide they are basically going to another planet. They
thought that UFO will take them to another planet which is both physical and spiritual. So they

all committed suicide by drinking some type of poison and covering their faces with bags. This is
the most popular event of mass suicide.

(6)PARASUICIDE:
Sometimes termed as suicide gesture, A suicide which is not successful. When a person attempt
suicide but is not dead. There can be many reasons of Para suicide may be a person want to die
but he is alive. Or a person who just others attention so they just try to kill themselves to grab the
attention of others. Typical examples include taking a handful of pills, and cutting one’s wrists to
draw blood, but not deeply enough to damage veins or arteries. This can be a case found more in
borderline personalities. Researchers have found that patients suffering from this feel some
unusual type of emotion that they cannot handle and by harming themselves they feel contented
and satisfy. Their actions must be taken seriously because they can do such thing again and may
be they will kill themselves second time. They have strong wish of attention and care from
others. Some people also have addiction of self-harm because they are so much depressed. They
feel relaxed by hurting themselves. This is a mental disorder found mostly in people who are
suffering mentally. There are many cases of Para suicide.

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Story of Karen, she and her husband used to do job and her only daughter was 12 years old. They
both were having less time to give her. When day when she returned home she found her
daughter on kitchen floor. She had cut her wrist with a knife she immediately took her to
hospital. She was saved by doctors then she asked her daughter what were the reasons behind her
this act. She told her that she felt that nobody need her and she should kill herself. She felt
shameful that she is not a good mother not paying attention on her daughter.
A girl who was in prostitution used to do self-harm. Once she hurt herself so much that she was
brought to doctors in a very bad condition. In her interview she said that she hates her life and
herself. She feel relaxed by doing self-harm she sometimes wants to end her life.

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”

― David Leviathan

Those who are suffering from it this can also be due to people around them. We need to look
after them more all they need is love and affection.

METHODS OF SUICIDE:

The leading and most effective methods vary among different countries. The most common of

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them include hanging, pesticide poisoning, falls and cutting (throat or wrists). Following are
some of the most common methods to attempt a suicide in different regions of the world.

DROWNING:
One of the common method is to drown yourself. Causes may vary as pressures of relatives, job
pressures or relationship breakups which may give you a thought of rethinking of your life on

Earth. Driving yourself or convincing yourself to jump into a large body of water will do it but
many fade in as little amount of water as half-filled bathtub.
Lethality: Drowning as measured in a study is as lethal as 63%.
Agony: To drown one’s own self can make him suffer the agony units of 79 up to 18-20 minutes.

ELECTRIC SHOCK:
How often does life gets harsh and you think of quitting it? It is not so rare in this century. One
way of doing it is to electrocution, to give a heavy electric shock to your own self. To dunk an
electric appliance in water and stand with it is one way to do it or you can simply hold a spoon or
knife, made of metal and jam it in electric circuit board.
Lethality: Electric shock is as lethal as 65.5% to human body.
Agony: One may bear 72 units of agony up to 2-3 minutes.

EXSANGUINATION:
A person can be so depressed that he can think of exsanguinate himself, to bleed to dry. To slit
or cut your wrist or any important vein or artery such as carotid, radial, ulnar or femoral artery
can set you free from life.
Lethality: Cutting or slitting can be as lethal as 6%.
Agony: An agony of 71 units one may bear up to 105 minutes till death.

HANGING:
when one has lost all of his hopes , thinks of finishing himself. The easiest way to do is to get
hanged from a ceiling fan or from tree.
Lethality: Hanging can be 89 to 90% lethal.
Agony: 25.5 units can be with a person up to 7 minutes till he breathes last.

POISONING:
To poison yourself is another way quitting from the life. Taking cyanide or drinking any other
poison can kill a person just in a glance.
Lethality: Taking cyanide can be 97% lethal for a human body and can cause death.

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Agony: A person can bear a pain of 51.5 units within 1-2 minutes till death.

Following is a table taken from a study in Los Angeles in which it was observed 4117 cases of
completed suicide by 291 lay persons and 10 pathologists, in which it was rated the lethality,
time in minutes, and agony for 28 ways of suicides, ranked from top as most lethal and to bottom
as least lethal.

Lethality Time
Rank Method Name Agony
(%) (min)
1 Shotgun to head 99.0% 1.7 5.5
2 Cyanide 97.0% 1.8 51.5
3 Gunshot of head 97.0% 2.5 13
4 Shotgun to chest 96.4% 1.4 16
5 Explosives 96.4% 1.6 3.75
6 Hit by train 96.2% 17.92 7.08
7 Jump from height 93.4% 4.56 17.78
8 Gunshot of chest 89.5% 7 21.7
9 Hanging 89.5% 7 25.5
10 Auto crash 78.5% 20.5 30
11 Household toxins 77.5% 24 54.5
12 Set fire to self 76.5% 57 95
13 Structure fire 73.0% 52.5 91.5
14 Carbon Monoxide 71.0% 21.5 18
15 Hit by truck/auto 70.0% 19 63
16 Electrocution 65.5% 2.4 72
17 Gunshot of abdomen 65.0% 69 74
18 Drowning ocean/lake 63.0% 18.5 79
19 Stab of chest 58.5% 96 76
20 Cut throat 51.5% 15.5 86
21 Overdose illegal drugs 49.4% 116.25 5.25
22 Plastic bag over head 23.0% 7 23
23 Drowning bathtub 21.5% 18.5 79

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24 Drowning swimming pool 21.5% 18.5 79
25 Stab of abdomen 12.5% 252 78
26 Overdose prescription drugs 12.3% 129 8.5
27 Overdose non-prescription drugs 6.0% 456 22.5
28 Cut wrists/arms/legs 6.0% 105 71

CAUSES OFSUICIDE:

Most people who choose to end their lives do this because of complex reasons. A stressful event
may force the person to edge and he commits suicide. People who commit suicide feel hopeless.
They do so because they feel that they don’t anything left in their lives. There are many causes
that make a person think this.

Bob wrote:

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

What makes a person think this way; there are many causes that makes people to think this way.
Males are committing more due to financial crisis, unemployment and many other factors. Some
main and common topics of suicide are:

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RELATIONSHIP AND SUICIDE:

The most common cause of suicide in teenager is relationship problems. People commit suicide
when they are not happy in their relationship or having hard times. Break-up cause serious heart
break that a person is too much depressed that he end up killing himself. Some people wants to
be in a relationship because they don’t have anyone else to support them, they are in search of
love but when they don’t get what they want they suffered from depression and commit suicide.
These days every person is suffering because of social media. A girl is in a relationship with a
guy he leaked out some of her personal stuff or blackmails her. She doesn’t have any other
options left so she just commits suicide. In unfriended movie, there is a story of a girl who

committed suicide because some of friend leaked out her video in which she was drunk. There
are many other stories of people who committed suicide because of relationship problems.

While watching such type of things people who are suffering from such type of problems should
think that suicide is not only option.

JIAH’S LAST BREATH MOMENT:

Jiah khan suicide case is the most common case which everyone most has read because it was
trending once. The main reason of her suicide was relationship issue. In her own words

‘’I never told you but I received a message about you. Cheating on me, I chose to ignore it and
decided to trust you. You embarrassed me. I never went out, I never went with anyone else. I am
a loyal person. I just wanted you to feel how you make me feel constantly. No other woman will
give you as much as I did or love you as much as I did. I can write that in my blood.’’

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This is what she wrote in her suicide note. She committed suicide just because of a guy and
relationship what is the result of it? Who is suffering? Her parents her family and her loved
ones. But her boyfriend is enjoying his life he don’t have any guilt. Why would you kill yourself
for a person who is just ok without you? She should have think about her future and her family
relationship is not all what you have you just need to think about it a girl or a guy is not just the
end of the world.

A guy committed suicide because girlfriend broke-up with him after 14 years of relationship. He
did not think about his family his friends just a girl who doesn’t care about you. People need to
think about it that this is not the end of the world.

If you want to show me that you really love me, don’t say that you would die for me, and instead
stay alive for me.

If you love someone live for them and prove your love. Live for those who love you. This quote
is a personal reminder. If you really want to sacrifice your life for someone, then live for them.

MENTAL ILLNESS:

Mental illness is one of the causes of suicide. Mental illness is basically a severe problem which
disturbs the neurology of an individual resulting in anxiety, bipolar, depression, schizophrenia
and much other nervous system disorder.

ANXIETY:
Anxiety is basically a feeling of apprehension, agitation and tension about something with an
unusual result. At a certain stage of life where a person suffers from nervousness and anxiety try
to commit suicide.

REAL LIFE INCIDENT:

There are many patients suffering from mental illness and commit suicide. A patient kept hidden
for the sake of privacy reported dr. in P.E.C.H.S society against the complaint of anxiety. She
was at the age of 30 and was so stressed due to the medication process and high close drugs. The
pressure of society and behavior of people with her made her hopeless about life and that she
could recover and live normal healthy life and push her to commit suicide.

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BIPOLAR DISORDER:
Bipolar disorder or manic depression is another type of mental illness in which the severe
variation in high and low moods during sleep. Thinking and behaving this fight of moods leads
people to attempt suicide.

“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is
there in living?”

― Kay Redfield Jamisth

This is what people suffering from bipolar disorder think about their lives that make them to
think that they should kill themselves because there is no purpose of their lives.

DEPRESSION:

Depression is a mood disorder which results in a persistent low feeling of unhappiness and lack
of interest also known a major depression. 90 % of people throughout the world commit suicide
suffering from untreated major depression.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she
sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible
to ever see the end.

― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

People lose their power of thinking because they are so much depressed. There can be many
reasons of depression a student can be depressed because of his grades issues and burden from
teachers and parents. He is not upto the mark he can be so much depressed that he can commit
suicide. A person can be depressed because of family issues if a child’s parents are divorced and

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never ending fights he don’t have anyone to talk about this. This will lead him to major
depression and he will feel that this will never end so he decides to commit suicide.

There are many ways in which a person can overcome depression but this require a strong
person, before committing suicide a person should think he can fight with all these situations
suicide is not the choice. Depression can be cure through medicines and counseling even talking
with a one you love and who understand you can solve your problem. Those who commit suicide
because of depression are complete failure.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

If you are ever depressed in your life just recall this mantra.

THIS PAIN TO SEEM PURPOSEFUL

SCHIZOPHRENIA:
This is a disorder related to nervous system in which sufferer interprets the reality in abnormal
ways. Around 20 t0 40 % patients attempt suicide.

TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE:

An experience that cause physiological distress, physical, emotional harm or anxiety. Usually
perceived as threat to the safety of an individual or to the stability of his world.

A traumatic experience may involve physical abuse, sexual abuse and war. The person who is
suffering any one of them thinks that suicide is the only option of getting rid of this.

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A real life incident of suicide from traumatic experience, A girl named Anna just 4 days after her
32th birthday. She hang herself by a t-shirt in the early morning. What actually happened to her
was at the age of 4 she was being sexually abused, harassed and traumatized. Anna’s babysitter
abuse her sexually at the age of 4 and her screaming and complains were ignored by her parents.
Later she was brought to a doctor and was then again sexually harassed to which she states:“he
did things to me that were disgusting”

Suffering from these cruel behavior and attitudes of her closed one led her to suicide.

This is the most common cause of suicide in girls throughout the world. Girls being sexually
abused, raped, chased by a guy. They think about their respect and dignity the only option left for
them is suicide. In Pakistan there many such cases, media is also showing such things through
dramas and movies. What people do is talk about this topic but don’t think about victim who is
suffering. A girl being raped showing her pictures in news won’t help her. She will start hating
herself, and eventually no other option she would just end her live to get rid of it.

BULLYING:

The unwanted, aggressive power imbalance is generally termed as bullying. To produce stress
upon the way of people think and how they feel is bullying. The victims of bullying can’t take it
anymore and when cannot fight back end up feeling extremely depressed, worthless and hopeless
to change their situation and this leads them to suicide.

Angel green from Indiana hanged herself from a tree so that her bullies could see her. 2013 was
the year; this fourteen year old girl from Indiana hung herself to a tree purposely in front of her
school bus stop so that her bullied could see her. She has assertedly been frequently mocked as a
slut and whore as well as surviving undeviating teasing over the fact that her father was sent to
jail for beating her. She hung herself with a line written on her shirt

“IT’S BULLYING THAT KILLED ME.’’

There are so many ways in which a person is bullied being lesbian, gay, bookworm, those who
are not financially strong, those who are not good in looks, those who don’t have good speaking
skills. People bullied in different but some people are so emotional that they took it very

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seriously that cause depression and they start seeing themselves as people say, they lost their
identity and eventually they commit suicide. They forget that there are many other things in their
life that are beautiful, they don’t think that what people think about them is not who they are.
Those who are making fun of them are below them, they should try to prove them that are wrong
those who kill themselves because of other people are the most stupid people.

I don't think anybody should ever take their life for being bullied. But if it wasn't for my family...
and my circle of friends, I could definitely see why someone would see it doesn't get any better
than this, but it does. Life is so beautiful – KhloeKardashian

DRUG ADDICTION:

Drug addiction is defined as lingering and recurrent brain disease characteristic by enthusiastic
drug seeking and use. Despite harmful consequences. Many people use drugs to reduce
depression, increasing the rate of suicide. According to a research :

‘’While depression and other mood disorders are the number-one risk factor for suicide, alcohol
and drug abuse – even without…depression – are ranked a close second.’’

When a person is drug addict he feels things differently than other persons. Most of the time his
mind is unconscious. Other then depression drugs addict suffer from financial crisis and social
problems. They start to hate themselves and the result is self harm. Most of the people use drugs
to get over their issues but it causes more aggression. Drugs addict starts to hate themselves and
then try to kill themselves.

KIM’S OVERDOSE STORY:

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My name is Kim and I live in Edison Farinick. I lost my daughter, Dana Reisman, an accidental
fatal overdose. she was a student of high school cheerleader and had a lifetime ahead, but she
died when she was only 22 years old..

As her mother says, Dana and I had a heart to heart in which he spoke positively about their
future, so it gives me hope that she was on the road to recovery. The next morning, my husband
and I went to work and when we got home we found Dana on the floor in our hallway. He was
facing down, cold and blue. This horrible image still haunts me today. I immediately began CPR
and my husband called 911, but it was too late, and we had lost Dana. I remember wanting to
have naloxone, an antidote opioid overdose in the house, so we could have tried to save my
daughter.

I know that society does not like to talk about drugs, addiction and overdose, but this is a
problem we can no longer ignore. In New Jersey, drug overdoses are the leading cause of
accidental deaths. In the wake of Dana, a half-dozen people came to me and told me about

someone in your family or someone they knew who died of an overdose. I know I'm not alone
and there are many parents like me who have sons and daughters who have fought or are fighting
addictions, children whose lives are at risk because of a potential overdoses.

FINANCIAL PROBLEMS :
There are so many people who commit suicide because of financial problems. Burden of debt
and bills. They don’t know what to do so to keep themselves save from all this stuff they think
the only option is to end their lives. They are afraid of results. A poor person who cannot even
anything for his family to eat will want to kill himself. There are so many people around the
world who cannot see their family suffering they are so depressed that they just kill themselves.

A woman named Amna committed suicide because of financial problems. she was the only
person in her family who was earning money having four children and her husband was not
doing any job. All financial burden was over her head. They don’t even sometimes have food to
eat. All of this burden lead her to kill herself. She committed suicide.

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Another case in Pakistan because of financial crisis. A mother poisoned her children and herself
and they all were found dead. She killed herself along with her children because of money issues.

Another man hanged himself because he was not having money to pay back his loans.

There are many such stories but one should think suicide is not the only option. A person should
try to earn more should try to do hard work. Killing yourself and family is not the only option.

“Go forward without fear.” – Abraham Lincoln

You should look towards your future and should do such things which will help you out killing is
done by failures. A person should think about it.

EXISTENTIAL CRISIS:
When people start to think that their live is meaningless they don’t have any purpose of living.
This is existential crisis. There comes a point in everyone’s lives where they think that they are
useless and they don’t have any purpose. When a person cannot trust his own thoughts and
feelings. This is a type of thought depression when a person think so much about live. This can

be because we don’t understand the real cause of our life. Why we are in this world. This can
also be cause because we are with people we love but there is still some gap present. This is
sometimes present in god gifted children because they see world differently and they start to
think their purpose in live.

A girl in Canada named Rachel committed suicide because of existential crisis. She was
depressed because she was not having any purpose in her live. Her parents used to scold her
because she was not paying attention over studies, they did not know that she was disturbed
mentally. She was in isolation, not interacting with friends and family and people taking her
wrong. One morning her mother found her dead in her room. She committed suicide by cutting
her wrist with a blade. Her mother said that we did not notice that she was suffering from
depression we thought that she don’t want to study that is why she is having poor grades. But in
her suicide note she wrote that I am useless for all of you, if I died there wont be any change.
There is no purpose of my life, I feel like a shitty person.

No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go
within.–Rainer Maria Rilke
People suffering from existential crisis should think beyond it. They should focus on things of
their interest. Nobody can help them, but they themselves.

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CHRONIC DISORDER:

A chronic condition health disease that is sustained or its effects are long lasting and that keep
influencing more and more with the passage of time. The term chronic is applied often to all
those diseases that last for more than three month.

A WAY WITH PAIN:

Julia was 39 years old lady from Washington, committed suicide fighting with excruciating pain
and gynecological issue and two road accidents. This starts when she was 11 and was bearing
some extremely painful gynecological issues and the car that hit her from behind when she was
coming back home from school, she fell on road screaming for her lower back. After ten years
full of pain she retained the sense of normality towards life but these ten years had deeply
affected her life and had left her life with drastically altered in the course of her life.

Julia had then to move with her family to a new city and her pains were once again started to
emerge. There again she met another car accident and this was the last straw she could have had.
She had left no suicidal note behind her. Her family neither needed one as they knew how her
whole life had been a part of pain. The charity she founded is now being run by her father who’s
72, leading on a way with pain.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND SUICIDE:

Social media is relatively new phenomenon which is shaping life differently. Teenagers are more
involved in Facebook, twitter, ask.fm, video chats, chat rooms, tumbler, LinkedIn and many
other such types of social networks. They think that their only life is life through social media.
Social media and suicide is a topic of main concern and debate. The recent increase in suicide

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due to social media hascaught the eyes of people. There are many reasons in which social media
can affect a person’s mind. May be he will read something about someone and he will try to
perform that task at home. Cyber bullying and cyber harassment is one of the major causes of
suicide in teenagers. Teenagers new to this thing called get involved in it and think that this is the
most important think in their lives and do anything for them. Mostly girls suffer from this. They
first do such things which are not to be done by them later they realize that they had did this
wrong and suffer from depression. When there is no one to help them they just kill themselves.
There are many such cases which are reported where people commit suicide because of cyber
bullying.

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away
unless it is surrendered. MichaelJ.fox

STORY OF AMANDA:
Amanda a 16 years old girl starts using video chats to connect with new people. On September 7
2012 she uploaded a video on YouTube giving her message through flash cards in which she told
her story. She met a guy online; they used to do video chatting she did such things for him online

which should not have been done. Later that guy blackmailed her and posted her all those videos
on social media. On October 10 she committed suicide because of cyber bullying.

Another girl who had a break-up with her boyfriend. Some anonymous person asked her on
ask.fm that she is useless and she should kill herself. Next day she committed suicide. She
hanged herself in her room. . He boy who was only 15 years old was found in Lancashire Village
right at his family’s farmhouse dead because of hurtful messages on his page. He was called a
freak and was told several times that no one liked him. Some even said that he deserved to have
sick things happen to him. He needs to kill himself. He took these things very seriously and
killed himself.

There are many such stories in which a person commits suicide because of such reasons. We
should be very careful in what we are saying to someone may be our one word would kill a
person. Teenagers should also think that those who are saying such rude words are not our
friends and are our friends and should not pay attention over them.

THIRTEEN REASONS WHY:

Thirteen reasons why by jay Asher is a book based on real life story of a girl who committed
suicide because of thirteen reasons which are done by people around her. Hannah’s stories make
me think differently about my friends and about those people who are not my friends. This book
tells the readers that how they should act and they should be careful in taking each step of life.

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Hannah baker audiotaped her suicide note in which thirteen stories were recorded. Her thirteen
reasons were:

1) A guy named Justin Foley, Hannah's first kiss, started rumors that they did more than just
kiss.

(2) Some of her schoolmates hurt her so much by voting Hannah "Best Ass of the Freshman
Class."

(3) A friend of her was upset by this and ended up hitting Hannah, leaving a scar on her
forehead.

(4) Magazine writer of her school allegedly took pictures of Hannah through her window

. (5) Courtney Crimson, a super fake girl at school, started rumors that Hannah had sex toys in
her bedroom.

(6) After getting matched up with Hannah through a Valentine's Day survey, a guy tried to make
a move on her,shehad to push him out of the booth and onto the floor to get him to stop.

(7) A friend of her Zach stole the notes of encouragement left for Hannah by classmates in her
Peer Communications class.

(8) Hannah met Ryan Shaver in a poetry class and really trusted him; that is, until he stole a very
personal poem of Hannah's and published it, leading to more ridicule for Hannah.

(9) The ninth tape features Clay and assures him that he had nothing to do with Hannah's
suicide. He was actually really good to Hannah.

(10) Justin Foley, from the first tape, is back on the recordings. This time, Justin allowed Bryce
Walker to have sex with Jessica (Hannah’s best friend) while she was unconscious.

(11) After a party, Jenny Kurtz offered Hannah a ride home, but knocked down a stop sign with
her car. Jenny refused to report the incident, and shortly after, there was a fatal accident at the
stop sign.

(12) One night, Bryce Walker started to touch Hannah in a hot-tub, and Hannah let Bryce,
whom she despised, have sex with her.

(13) Mr. Porter, Hannah's guidance counselor, didn't take her seriously when she said she was
suicidal, and he let her leave his office without getting her any help.

This is a real life story of a girl which gives us so many lessons. How much a person should be
careful in judging other? And how much effect we should have on our lives. Jay Asher had tell
her story very beautifully and setting a lesson for other teenagers.

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‘’ ALL OF YOU CARED, JUST NOT ENOUGH.’’ – JAY ASHER, THIRTEEN
REASONS WHY

SUICIDE NOTES :

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A message left behind by person before suicide. Suicidal write his or her reason of suicide in this
note or an apology letter for loved ones, parents and friends. There are many reasons for which a
person writes a suicide note. To create guilt for people who were the reasons of suicide, to
release the pain of loved one by telling them reason of suicide so that they will not blame
themselves or to express his thoughts or feelings he was unable to express, giving instructions for
his personal stuff or his own guilt or sin which force him to do this.

A guy age 18 wrote in his suicide note :

‘’though I’m going to kick the bucket. I am as happy as ever. I am tired of this life so bringing an
end to it. ‘’

A girl wrote poem in her suicidal note which is as follows :

I can’t take it, it’s come to me.

That this life was not meant to be.

As I take this choice and let myself go.

I think to myself, how you would say no.

How you would hold me close and tell me you care.

It just too bad you could not be there.

It’s not your fault you tried.

Now all you can do is sit there and cry.

Remember the times we shared.

Remember I always cared.

WORLD SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY:

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World suicide prevention day is on 10th September every year. This is an awareness day for
prevention of suicide in people and spreading awareness about it. Suicide is the 13 leading cause
of death. This day is organized by international association for suicide prevention. On this day
many events are organized in which people talk about suicide and why it should not be done. In
schools programs are held to aware students that this act is no approved by other and taking your
lives is not the solution to your problems. There were many different themes for this day.

In 2003 the was ‘’ suicide can be prevented’’, in 2004 ‘’ saving lives, restoring hopes’’. Many
such types of themes through which a message a conveyed.

“Place your hand over your heart, can you feel it? That is called purpose. You’re alive for a
reason so doesn’t ever give up.”- Unknown

SUICIDE LOSSSURVIVORS:
People while committing suicide don’t think about people who love them. Suicide survivors are
those who have lost their loved one who have committed suicide. This will be the worst
experience of life. Losing your loved one and you were there with them but you never get a
chance to help them. Those who commit suicide, they don’t know and they don’t even think that
what would happen to people who love them when they will found them dead. They left people
in emotional roller coaster. They feel anger guilt. A famous quote said:

“Because if you kill yourself, you’re also going to kill the people who love you.”

You die and people who love you die daily because they did not help you out.

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Kathy robins telling her story. Her son who was only 22 years old took away his live. She said
that the reason of his suicide was obvious. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was
depressed. The day he returned from hospital next day he was found in his room. He hanged
himself to death. She said that after 8 years she is still suffering from it. She is still not out of it.

This is how your loved one feels when you kill yourself. Before killing yourself just look around
you and think who need you more.

SUICIDAL THOUGHTS:

Nearly everyone goes through a time in life in which they experience depression. Anger,
loneliness, worthless, whether it’s unfavorable environmental factors, traumatic experiences,
and/or dealing with mental illness, depression has become very common. In some cases, the
depression becomes so overwhelming, that we are unable to cope with it. The inability to cope
with severe depression is what leads most people to become suicidal the main part which leads
them to commit a suicide is that they believe there is no hope for their current situation.

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill him-self.”

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

 Remove unnecessary medicines from the home.

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  Trust your suspicions; take any threat related to suicide seriously. Let them say what they
want to.

 Be honest. If you are worried about a teen, say so. Ask some direct question, aware of
their thoughts about suicide.

 Try to determine whether the person has a suicide plan. The more detailed the plan,
especially with available and lethal means, the greater the risk.

 Encourage the person to seek help and talk to counselor or trained mental health
professional.

 Always be in contact with that person.

 Be a listener, not a "fixer."

 Help the person explore and express feelings.

 Communicate your concern for their well-being.

 Show your support verbally and non-verbally.

WHAT NOT TO DO:

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  Do not minimize or ignore statements about wanting to die. Do not ignore a person
who says ‘I WANT TO DIE.’

 Do not be judgmental; by saying suicide is right or wrong.

 Do not motivate a person for doing something wrong

 Do not say “everything will be change after sometime”

 Do not tell others stories related to him.

 Do not ignore the situation. Don't leave the person alone if you feel the risk of suicide
is immediate.

SUICIDE RATE WORLDWIDE:

When a clock tick to a sec, a person somewhere on a earth commit suicide.Over one million
people die by suicide worldwide each year. The global suicide rate is 16 per 100,000
populations. On average, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Global suicide rates
have increased 60% in the past 45 years.

SUICIDE RATE IN PAKISTAN:

Report based over a period of two years, showed over 300 suicidal deaths in Pakistan from 35
different cities.[1] The findings showed that men outnumber women by 2:1 and that the majority
of men who commit suicide tend to be unmarried; the trend for women, however, is the opposite.
Research also indicated that the majority of subjects were under the age of 30 and that "domestic
problems" are the main reason stated for suicide.[1] These include unemployment, health issues,
poverty, homelessness, family disputes, depression and a range of social pressures. Hanging, use
of insecticides and firearms are the most common methods for carrying out suicide in Pakistan.[3]

SUICIDE AND BIBLE:

The solution to despair and hopelessness is not suicide, but faith in God.

Christ promises to give us the rest of our problems.

Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you relaxation (Matthew
11:28).

God has a great plan for our life. He has created us in His image. He made us for a
determination. God has a specific plan in mind for everyone.

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For I know the tactics I have for you, states the GOD, plans to flourish you and not to harm you,
plans to give you hope and a future.

QURAN AND SUICIDE:

Quranic Verse 1:
"Don't murder yourself. No doubt Allah(swt) is merciful and anyone who does so, will be
thrown in fire. And it is easy for Allah (swt)." (Nisa: 4:29, 4:30)

Quranic Verse 2: 

"We are property of Allah (swt) and we will reappear to Allah (swt) one day."
(Baqra 2:156)

Quranic Verse 3: 

"Don't' murder yourself with your own fingers" (Baqra 2:195)

SUMMARY:
In the Holy Book QURAN PAK Allah (SWT) asks us to not to suicide and to never lose hope.
Islam has always preached about encouraging people and has showed them all the beautiful
aspects of life so that people may never lose their hope and if someone still tries to take his life
Islam strictly forbids that has set serious punishes for him. As HE says the one who tries to kill
him with a weapon will be teased forever in the hereafter. HE further forbids people to not to
take their lives by their own hands and as we’re HIS property so we have face him again in the
hereafter.

CONCLUSION:
It is true that we all have to die one day, but the way we die also matters a lot. God gave us
this life once to make full of it. To enjoy it and to make use of it, to fulfill god commands.
Here after we are going to give an account of it. We are going to give answer for our deeds.
We have discussed in this report different cause of suicides, types of suicide, methods of
suicide, suicidal thoughts, rate of suicide, social media and suicide, mass suicide, Para
suicide, suicide survivors and response Quran, Hadith and bible towards it. There are many
other aspects which are not discussed. Now in conclusion we have our own responsibilities.
To tell the world that suicide is not the answer of your problems. It is cowardly act to commit
suicide. There must be some hope left, after storm there is a light of hope. Some actions can
be taken to prevent it. A person can get out of depression by being open to people around

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them, and we should be more friendly with people who are around us. Speak up if you are
depressed. If we think about life after death, the reward is actually greater than what we have
imagined. Therefore, it is great challenge for us to help ourselves and to help those who are
suffering. Life cannot be easily right or wrong, black or white; it can be a process of
thoughtful choices that emphasize the compassionate dignity which humans are capable of

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