What Drives Someone To Suicide?

Living in Nigeria without social amenities.  Nothing to do after 5PM but phock.

No movie theaters, no game arcades, no decent concerts without area boy fingering you during "Change Over" of alternative power supply, no night clubs without people with body ordor and dusty armpits. No decent restaurants without fear of "recycled" meat and fish from road kills or dead whales swept ashore.

No health care facilities better than those of native doctors.

Education only for the mentally retarded.

Transportation for those on a suicide mission.

Security, the police is your friend for sure.

Prostitution and armed robbery as the only gainfull sources of employment for the so called agbaya youths with grey pubic hair.

Illiteracy seen as a badge of honor by most.

And the list goes on and on.

What a depressing place to live

nigeria

have you ever loved someone so much and the person betrays your love? i don't think so. otherwise, you would know how the thought of suicide feels like

cannot comment, i can imagine

Just ask Nirvana

the post is very educative love the post

iNSANITY AT THE FIRST LEVEL!

speaking of suicide,what about suicide bombers.In 2005, there was this 20 year old Marvan Abu Ubeida.he says has been training for months to carry out a suicide mission.this young man plans to offer up a final prayer and then blow himself along with as many US. or Iraqi soldiers as he can reach.Marwan asked his commander to consider him for a suicide mission but had to wait until the beginning of April for his name to be put on the list of volunteers.When his commander finally agreed,Marwan recalls, "it was the happiest day of my life."
While he waits, he spends much of his time rehearsing that last prayer. "First I will ask Allah to bless my mission with a high rate of casualties among the Americans," he says, speaking softly in a matter-of-fact monotone, as if dictating a shopping list. "Then I will ask him to purify my soul so I am fit to see him, and I will ask to see my mujahedin brothers who are already with him." He pauses to run the list through his mind again, then resumes: "The most important thing is that he should let me kill many Americans."and at the time for his mission draws near he says,"I can't wait," "I am ready to die now."

Ok, now why some people kill themselves out of depression, others have ulterior motives and build up so much alacrity toward comiting suicide.

Many an african men commit suicide daily but due to the way things are, majority, if not 99% of all suicides go unreported. It is not same as suicide rate being lower in africa, compared to the west. Do you really believe that the mortality rate in most of africa remains around the 49 year mark for no reason??? How many UNEXPLAINED deaths have you not heard of in that continent, that to date are attributed to some god or another striking a person to death in sleep?? Depression exists both in the west and in Africa. Even in asia, where it is still considered a taboo, they still battle with such problems even as they become more open to speaking up about it. How much more in Africa?? Depression is not necessarily linked to how much you have or do not have but your mind setting and how you process information.

Are you being in any way objective when you try to compare open societies where all is discussed in the open to closed societies where the subject remains taboo?? Do you really think you help the victims in africa by doing this or is this just about you?? Do you even have any will to save a life, no matter how insignificant, in africa??

I went to school with so many kids from broken homes. I heard of a couple of suicides back in college in Nigeria. I even got to learn that a lot of those who join cults do so with death wishes of some sort. Due to the religious teachings that are pumped into people from childhood, many grow up afraid of putting the knife to their own throats as they believe it will mean damnation for them but they secretly pray for death. People who are suicidal are not able to discuss the issue for fear of having the information spread to those they do not want to know of it. That is a problem that exists in Africa to date. I have, growing up in Nigeria alone met so many depressed people who do all they can to mask their real feelings for fear of being rejected by people. Depressed people do not have to take a gun to their heads for us to know that they may be suicidal.  I even remember telling one of my aunt, when I was a kid, in Nigeria, that I was depressed. You should have seen the reaction, it was almost as if I had commited the cardinal sin. She told me how ungrateful I was and how I was damning my soul by thinking such thoughts. Do you think I ever opened my mouth about the issue after that experience?? ROFLMAO~!!!

Trying to assume suicidal minds do not exist in africa is trying to decieve self in hopes that problems go away just cause we make up such claims. I suggest that more and more people develop compassionate hearts and actually learn to listen to those around them more. Maybe then and only then would you realize how wrong that claim you made up there truly is.

Can we for once stop with the reasoning that as long as it exists in the west, we should all not be alarmed that it exists within our own shores. I mean what is with this culture of celebrating and accepting mediocrity??
Why not focus on the problem itself and work towards reducing it instead of coming up with irrational comparisons of these issues with the west so we can sit back and continue NOT TO ACT??

I don't understand how many in here were raised but what is with comparing with the west or north and then using that as yardstick for what we should act on or  not act on?? We live in a country where lots of problems exist but for most every thread you find people who are willing to trade common sense for silly arguments that usually follow the line " IT HAPPENS IN THE WEST AND SO WE SHOULD NOT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE PROBLEM" or "THE PROBLEM EXISTS MORE IN THE WEST IS JUSTIFICATION FOR US TO CONTINUE TO SIT WITH OUR ARMS FOLDED AND DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING". Does this really make sense to any one of those who approach most every issue with this line of reasoning??

Do you say because your neigbour's son is in Jail is reason why there is no problem with your own son heading to or being in Jail?? Should we also decide that since corruption exists in the west, we should not speak out against our own government and it's corrupt ways? Each time I read these things, first question that comes to mind is "What mother/father raised these people?".

I don't know where you are in your struggle but can I suggest that if you do not know God, you should search for him. I was as a child in Nigeria plagued with such thoughts as I did not have a sense of purpose and that basically is the main reason for my having those thoughts myself. I basically did not have an understanding of my life's pupose and so did not really see value in so much of the things people celebrated and held close to heart and all. But, back about 4 years ago, I found God and I found a purpose and a reason to live; a reason bigger than just the fact that there are those in worse situations. I wake up with a reason bigger than I and I am happier and more able to see that it is not about material things and a need to please people but more. I do deal with such emotions every now and then but I am better able today to overcome those thoughts than when I was younger. So I am hopeful that more people can too.