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Depending upon our priorities, we all crave for something or the other; be it money, love, fame or rank. Bowelless competition exists in every field -corporate, academics, sports, etc. Everyone is under dire pressure to stand out.
Several serial suicides popped up in Mumbai recently. I was very much flabbergasted to bear how one can kill oneself for such a trivial reason: Neha Sawant, a 6th standard student, hanged herself at her Dombivli home on Saturday morning for a very airheaded reason. Her parents had asked her to rivet on studies and give up from pursuing dance.
Bhajan Preetkaur Bhullar, an 18-year-old physiotherapy student of DY Patil College in Nerul, hanged herself for not being able to pass her second semester examinations. Day after this, Sushant Patil, 12, a 7th standard student of Sharada Ashram School in Dadar, simulating the same reason, committed suicide by hanging himself with a nylon rope in the school toilet. It is said that the day before committing suicide, Sushant Patil had watched “3 Idiots” (movie) twice— the film shows an engineering student committing suicide in his hostel room. This is named as a COPYCAT SUICIDE.
Dr Fabian Almeida, psychiatrist and director of Wellspring counselling clinic in Kalyan stated copycat suicide as the duplication of another suicide seen on TV or cinema. Dr Almeida further added that when Marilyn Monroe committed suicide, several fries wanted to attain public eye by dying in the same way. Dr Almeida said that Patil may have harboured low self-esteem and academic failure was stupendous for him. Dr Kersi Chavda, president, Mumbai Psychiatric Society, said. “It is possible that he (Sushant Patil) was thinking of committing suicide; then he saw the movie and the scene appealed to his senses.”
Several other psychiatrists view suicide as an instinctive motive. However, they agree that people do a lot of cerebrating before committing suicide. In addition, they believe that a psychological post-mortem (analysis of a child’s behaviour over the past two years) would uncover the mysterious cause.
Certain kinds of pressure-academic, parental, social and peer pressure blackjacks one to slide into tenseness. Knowingly or unknowingly, people never judge of right or wrong before committing suicide. Are these people who have committed suicide, ashamed of their failures or are these the real cowards lacking the guts to face the reality. If at all they have to be ashamed of, they should be for being such a coward and not of their failures. Failures are mere excuses for cowardice. Failures are stepping-stones for success. Once failed are once passed and vice versa but once dead are dead forever.
Life has no second choice!
