Discuss the trends of teen suicide in India.
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Suicide in ancient India has largely been influenced by sacrificial motives, for the sake of honor, religious, and sociocultural beliefs apart from psychiatric and other causes. Ramayana and Mahabharata are the twin epics of India and down centuries they have influenced the thoughts, temper, conduct, and culture of our people.
From the pages of Ramayana, it is learned that stung by a baseless accusation that he had accepted his wife after her stay in Ravana's abode, Lord Rama unleashed: “I shall abandon my own life; take my life and should be glad to kill you all.” Lord Rama's foremost devotee, Hanuman when his initial search for Sita proves futile, for a moment decides to commit suicide. He would rather give up his life than return without clues or news of Sita.[1]
In Mahabharata, on hearing the news about the death of his son Abhimanyu in the battle, Arjuna wanted a huge fire to be prepared for him to commit suicide; however, that was prevented by Lord Krishna by reminding Arjuna about his own earlier advice to another old man who tried to commit suicide by falling into fire on the death of his son.
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