Extended Suicides and Techie Suicides - Disturbing Trends

There were three items in today's media that are disturbing in the extreme that raise questions in my mind that won't just go away-


The first was a story of a young "techie" (a 32-year-old man), who hanged himself to death in a hotel, as he was unwilling to face his family with an impending "pink slip" from the IT firm he was working for.

The second was a story of an "extended suicide" of two Indian families in the US. At a family dinner, A man shot his wife and four-month-old infant daughter along with the wife's brother and his wife and two school-going children and finally did himself in. As it happened, all but his wife succumbed to the injuries and she is admitted in a hospital with severe bullet wounds!

The third story was a case of "love failure" - yet another "techie," the seventh one, says the concerned newspaper.

Can our society deny having a role in this infernal weakness that's destroying the minds of our youth? It's something for our educationists and schools to ponder over. More emphasis must be placed on strengthening children from within and self-esteem development and less on "achievements" and "goal-oriented" behaviour.

For full news items, see New Indian Express(Item one) and Deccan Chronicle (item three) and Sun News (Item two).