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| `Valley eves end life for trivial reasons' | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 1: Twenty-two year old Ayesha Bano of Chogal, Handwara today consumed poison. She was rushed to hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead. A case has been registered.
This is how news agencies and newspapers report such incidents. Nothing moves. The concerned express shock, sociologists count the numbers and the show goes on. Hundreds of Valley women have ended their lives during the past three years.
One shivers at the reasons behind most of the suicides. Some times the reasons are too trivial to justify an emotional response. On November 1, last year, a young girl from Ganderbal district ended her life when somebody told her that the pre-paid connections would not work. She consumed some poisonous substance and breathed her last in the hospiltal.
A student of 11th standard ended his following severe scolding by his parents for getting 91% marks in the term examination. He had secured 93% in the previous term. But when the parents realized their mistake, it was too late.
`Suicide attempts by women are mostly a cry for help', says a local social scientist. According to him, among women it was mostly para-suicide as they attempt suicide but rarely complete it. But the statistics of the past few months prove the expert partly wrong. Two women take the extreme step on an average basis in the conflict torn Valley, reports suggest.
The conflict definitely has had a toll on mental health in Kashmir but the reasons for recent suicides especially by women reflect disorganization of both the individual and society in Kashmir.
Dr Hameedullah Shah, who has observed a number of patients in the psychiatric hospital, says: "A person commits suicide when he or she reaches the extreme condition of hopelessness. This situation is generally created when a society hankers after materialistic needs."
Shah said the society in Kashmir is today faced with many issues which strengthened the tendency of suicide among the residents of the valley. He sees no direct connection in the rising number of suicides and the on-going turmoil.
Giving data of 2006 and 2007, he said out of the 61 cases of suicide registered by police, 43 were young and middle-aged women while out of 42 cases in 2007, 25 belong to this category. |
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