Suicide: The Dark Mystery
When we hear of suicide, we wonder why someone would want to take their own life. We may never know why a person committed suicide, while it might have appeared that someone had everything to live for, it probably didn't feel that way to them. In Nepal, almost 15 people committed suicide everyday with around 5000 persons killing themselves every year. During this lockdown period from March 24 to June 18 this year, a total of 875 people committed suicide, which is the sign of increment than previously reported. According to the news "742 died by hanging themselves, 114 by consuming poison and the rest used burning, stabbing, jumping from height as major ways of attempting suicide." WHO has ranked Nepal as the country with the 7th highest suicide rate in the world (24.9 per 1,00,000). So far in Nepal, 22 death from COVID-19 has been counted which is very less in comparison to others. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is feared to make suicide as an enormous global psychologi...
