Suicidal Tendencies in Contemporary World: Causes and Prevention
Keywords:
Suicide, causes, prevention, contemporary world, mortality rateAbstract
Suicide is a public health and social unlawful phenomenon which is known as a conscious or an unconscious tragic reaction to stress, depression or trauma demonstrated by an individual or a group of individuals with a direct or indirect intention of putting an end to their own lives by either selfpoisoning, shooting, knifing or by hanging (voluntary homicide). This persistent social reoccurrence is the fourth leading mortality rate in the world today with a death rate ranging from 700000 to 800000 (seven hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand) per year with about 77% rate in Africa and other underdeveloped countries across the globe. This has prompted the researchers to embark on this topic so as to succinctly address the causes and prevention of suicide in contemporary world. The paper also has as objectives to reveal the classes of suicide hardly anticipated by the society, negligible but dangerous.
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