Young India is opting for Suicide
posted on May 10, 2016 @ 3:36PM
The Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well-being has made some startling revelations that are quite disturbing. This international organisation has studied various statistics from India and delivered some bad news for us. It has revealed that suicide is the leading cause of deaths for young people between 10-24 in India. According to the report , in 2013... 62,960 people of this age group has chosen to take a drastic decision to end their lives. Experts were deducing that these huge number of suicides could be due to changes in livelihood.
Cut throat competition and life style diseases such as obesity are leading our youth to depression. But these statistics are not just confined to our country. Reports from various countries too were indicating similar trends. The Commissions’ lead authors have warned these statistics to be a ‘wake up call’. Who are going to hear that!