What makes them die

Mohabbat Morshed | 14 June 2020 | 11:13 pm | 385

What makes them die

Sushant Singh Rajput, a celebrated bollywood actor who has spell-binded audience from all walks of life with movies such as ‘Chhichhore’ and ‘Kedernath’, has committed suicide.Unfortunately, he was found hanging from the ceiling fan. But why? Wasn’t he eager to live? But who doesn’t want to live?People do so many things, sometimes even resort to something illicit, just to survive and retain the life-force. If so, then what kind of force leads them to take their own lives?

Often people who are about to commit suicide suffer from indecisiveness that arises from the conflict of emotion. The conflict is basically between the kind of emotion that corresponds to suicidal attitude and the emotion that can be related to the keenness to live. When a person with nothing to live for decides to commit suicide, his/her suicidal emotion overshadows his/her willingness to live. Consequently they feel that they have nothing to live for in their life. But in such cases, people often commit mistakes in judging their life out of desperation and impetuosity. And such error in the verdict leads them to believe that their life is not worthy enough to be continued.

Well, the psychological mystery behind suicide remains unresolved in many cases. In such cases, one may fail to interpret the exact reason of suicide. Jibanananda Das, one of the most renowned Bengali romantic poets, reflects the theme of suicide in his poem “AatBochor Ager Ekdin”, and eventually makes an attempt to explain why a person commits suicide leaving behind so many well-wishers. He concludes stating metaphorically that there are many more reasons other than the traditionally known reasons behind a suicide. People often commit suicide because of some unknown reason that keeps haunting them and instigating them to end their life. But it is mentionable that such assumption is strictly fictional, not based on any scientific grounds.

Meanwhile, it should be stated that recent years have seen a spike in the rate of suicide among men’s folk. Many young men are now committing suicide. We will not understand what prompts so many young people to commit suicide- when their prospects are expected to be the brightest- unless we consider that they are facing a world that may seem not to have any place for them. And they get to know it. They get hurt by the realization that they are not welcome in the world. Such awareness, though a subjective one, often inspires them to kill themselves by adopting any kind of violent ways.

This is really staggering. So many people around us are convinced to end their life journey but we do not even know about that. But the fact is that our little attention and proper aid could save them.To do so, we can follow the path depicted in ‘Hemlock society’, an Indian-Bangla film. In the film the female protagonist wants to commit suicide. In the meantime, she meets the male protagonist who is the founder of ‘Hemlock Society’. The prime job of ‘Hemlock Society’, as it seems from the surface meaning, is to assist the aspirants in committing suicide successfully. But they actually uses comic element dexterously to bring out the fear of death that may refrain people from ending their life.

We can also do the same. If we come to know about someone who is in such dilemma, we should try to make them realize what difference his/her loss will mean to his/her near and dear ones. Meanwhile we should inspire them to drink life to the lees.

(The writer is a columist who likes to delve deeper into human psyche and explore the factors that infuence it.)

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