A study of suicidal ideation among males and females of engineering students

Pages: 1027-1030
Sunil Kumar (Counselor and Special Educator, Bal Bharti Public School, Rohini, Delhi)

Suicide means of taking ones life. Emile Durkheim, the first to study suicide systematically, distinguished three different types, depending on what motivates the act of self-destruction: altruistic, anomic and egoistic. Durkheim’s classification system altruistic suicide based on sacrificing oneself for the good for others. The soldiers who hurts himself upon a grenade to save others, and ritual suicide, such as hara-kiri, intended to save ones family from shame, are classic examples. Anomic suicide that results, in Durkheim’s analysis, from the sense that life no longer has meaning, from a sense of anomie, loneliness, isolation and loss of contact with the norms and values of society also called norm less suicide. In Durkheim’s classification system, egoistic suicide resulting from a sense of deep personal failure, a feeling that one is personally responsible for not living up to societal and personal expectation. Suicide has been declared a major heath problem in the United States by the Surgeon General, David Satche (1999). He noted that the suicide rate among children has doubled since 1980 and that the elderly account for one in five suicides. Although countries around the world have different overall rates of suicide, this increase in suicide rate seems to hold true world wide. In most countries the young adults group seems to be at the widest risk. In Denmark and Japan countries with different cultural histories, suicide is the number one cause of death amount 25-34 years old age and account for 30% of all deaths among 25% of among women.