SUICIDE AND ITS RATES

PRESENTING BY:
“MUHAMMAD USMAN”
“MURTAZA KHAN”
What is Suicide?
Historic Background:

 The first person to debate the morality of suicide was the Greek philosopher, Socrates
- over 400 years before the birth of Christ.
 Socrates believed that human beings were the property of the gods, and did not have
the right to take away something namely life, that did not belong to them
Cont.……

 In the rule of Rome king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus 510BC.

when his son raped a wife of Lucretia a wife of high-ranking cosul.
 Lucretia due to shamed attempt a suicide.
Types of Suicide:

 Drowning

 Electric shock

 Exsanguination
 Jumping

 Suffocation

 Carbon Monoxide
Inhalation
 Poisoning

 Hanging

 Shouting
Emile Durkheim Suicide study:
Emile Durkheim discuss some different types Suicide
Altruistic - Excess/integration

Anomic - Insufficient regulation

Egoistic – insufficient integration

Fatalistic – excess regulation

Reasons of Suicide:

Dissolved in depression

Loss of hope

Frustration

Fear
 Lifeless things taking
away lives

 Society sucks

 When there is heart break,

people try to break
their ties with life

 Jobless life
Main Reason in Asia:
 Poverty

 Dowry

 Sexual harassment
 Injustice

 Unemployment

 Un-freedom life
Suicide and Islam:
Cont.………
World Suicide map
Suicide rate of different countries