zombieTRACKER:


Who will vote Buhari?

Lair sheribu,?. ... You?

deleo16:

abdulaz:
I would rather die than commit suicide
Make I commit suicide make another nigga take my clients ba
Just imagine, No More EPL No more Champions league I go come leave all my babes behind No more TWD and GOT No more GOW No more weed
Fvck suicide. We die here, even if 1 dollar is equivalent to 2k. We will keep pushing.

Gboy101:
...one thing you forget to realized is what cause suicide. the Major reason is the economy status 50 %, failed academic 10%, body shaming 10% , failed relationship 10% , social status and many more 10%.

before now it was not so. Africans don't know what economy was neither the central bank of africa or neither do they seek employment.

they were simply farmers, fishermen, Hurters and hunt gatherers. there were nothing like career, body shaming or trying to be beautiful via cosmetic surgery. life was more easy for them as an uncivilized humans.

their daily life was just to eat and not the craze over materialism and possession.

we can't rule out the fact that there weren't any suicide cases in the past, they were simply not reported. unlike what we have today the civilized population and social media.

Tecks10:
Forget all talks. Depression is actually real; people who have never experienced depression or haven't had anyone close to them experience it,are the ones talking down on it. Don't always condemn people who commit suicide, it takes a whole lot of courage and strength to kill one self. Yes,suicide is bad, but it takes anything far form cowardice to commit it.

Opinionated:
By Abdulkabir Olatunji

If everything goes to plan, children will grow into adults but what is not readily recognized and accepted in our society is that adults carry the information they downloaded at childhood with them. The character most people develop by 20 is very difficult to change unless there is some radical change in their circumstance or environment — yet, the basic persona is there.

In the last decade we have seen an alarming increase in suicides, attempted suicides and murder as well. Many have quickly opined that these incidences are just a reflection of what has always happened in our society. I disagree.

The introduction of cable television in the early 90s in Nigeria has changed our society meaning part of a generation has been born with access to Western lifestyle which includes a tendency to glamourize violence and you guessed it — suicide as well. Let’s leave the promotion of sex and drugs for another time.

Some might argue that even till now, many Nigerians don’t have access to cable television and I agree. However, what many cannot get via cable, they can get with a set of DVDs costing as little as N100 each. Look around you, the average Nigerian youth is hooked on some American or foreign series — they call them ‘season films’. This content is rapidly dumping the mindset of the West in Nigerian youths without the support structure present in those countries (no matter how flawed they are).

Let me explain in a way that people might understand. So, a 16-year-old girl starts acting like a rebellious American kid, this will not make her parents, typical Americans, neither will it change Lagos to Los Angeles. In essence, the girl is exhibiting traits the Nigerian society doesn’t readily accept. Then, frustration begins to set in, her Western dogma tells her frustrated people usually commit suicide. To kill yourself is not easy but she reads on social media how certain people died taking certain things and it begins to look attractive.

Yes, we all get sad and depressed at some points in our lives. At this point, it is so easy for the young person to commit suicide and even write letters seeking validation and justification.

Our “yuppie” analysts give it — “Depression is real” “You don’t understand what people are going through”. Biko, be quiet for a while, some of our ancestors went through 100 years of war, others slavery, they didn’t start committing suicide for “I don’t like my life reasons”. I condemn all forms of suicide but the ones that existed in our culture in the past had certain complexities attached which I still find unjustifiable. For example, a King should not have to commit suicide, better face your enemies and die in battle.

I stop here before I digress too much.

Source: Increasing Suicide — Be Careful What Your Children Consume

calddon:
its bad, the idea of kids acting like grownups, wanting their freedom and the plague of depression is all on the media. The late 90s and early 2000 changed it all in these part of the world. There's no going back. what we will see going forward are endless circles of freedom seeking selfish generations. Congratulations We have been civilized in poverty

JeromeBlack:



This is very ignorant. So suicide is caused by TV? Only Americans and white people have suicide in their culture abi?

The hardship, the stress, the depression and the ignorance in Nigeria cannot push one to suicide?

naijaboiy:
Okonkwo in "things fall apart" committed suicide after he was frustrated by his village people acceptance of the western ways. Depression has always been real, do you have data and statistics to prove that many of our ancestors didn't commit suicide?

Suicide is not a western thingy and has never been glamorized. And it's so pathetic that you're trying to compare hundreds of years ago with the present.

Uglymugg:





Attitudes towards suicide slowly began to shift during the Renaissance. John Donne's work Biathanatos, contained one of the first modern defences of suicide, bringing proof from the conduct of Biblical figures, such as Jesus, Samson and Saul, and presenting arguments on grounds of reason and nature to sanction suicide in certain circumstances.

The secularization of society that began during The Enlightenment questioned traditional religious attitudes toward suicide and brought a more modern perspective to the issue. David Hume denied that suicide was a crime as it affected no one and was potentially to the advantage of the individual. In his 1777 Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul he rhetorically asked, "Why should I prolong a miserable existence, because of some frivolous advantage which the public may perhaps receive from me?" A shift in public opinion at large can also be discerned; The Times in 1786 initiated a spirited debate on the motion "Is suicide an act of courage?"

By the 19th-century, the act of suicide had shifted from being viewed as caused by sin to being caused by insanity in Europe.

abdulaz:
I would rather die than commit suicide

Make I commit suicide make another nigga take my clients ba

Just imagine,
No More EPL
No more Champions league
I go come leave all my babes behind
No more TWD and GOT
No more GOW
No more weed

Fvck suicide. We die here, even if 1 dollar is equivalent to 2k.
We will keep pushing.

KingThreatzz:
Dont keep sniper at home.

Dabiridamilare:


Dis statement reminds of my mum...one day, outta frustration of seeing flies and unwanted flying and crawling insect in my room. I just woke up,went straight to her room forgetting that she has been reading how people do take this sniper to commit suicide and said 'mum, I really need sniper',.
Oboy, see the rush kin eye she take look me, she didnt say anything oo... Until I came back to my senses that I didn't tell her what I needed the sniper for,even when i did tell her, she was still monitoring my movemment and room ooo

She hates sniper like hell,infact, she prefers using other inactive pesticide other than that sniper..

Floryangel8:
Gone are the days of Nigerian no dey kill themselves. God help us to be strong emotionally and psychologically

abdulaz:
I would rather die than commit suicide
Make I commit suicide make another nigga take my clients ba
Just imagine, No More EPL No more Champions league I go come leave all my babes behind No more TWD and GOT No more GOW No more weed
Fvck suicide. We die here, even if 1 dollar is equivalent to 2k. We will keep pushing.

raptex:
I swear I wish I was born before the colonial era. All they did was eat and enjoy nature. No problems, no worries and they lived longer. The current life expectancy age for Nigerians is something to worry about.

dexterinc2003:
OP,
Please stop writing about things you do not understand.

In your mind, there would be no suicide if people do not watch American films. Just when i thought i have heard it all!

One would think you would even try to research a little, but no, just pure sentiments and superstitions.

Let me tell you a little more about Major depression.

There is basically a chemical imbalance in the brain, which other people do not have, most times can be corrected with anti depressants.

It is severe enough to disrupt the person's daily activities and they have no control over it. (The depression).

Sometimes , it could occur with other mental illness, where they begin to see things , hear things and feel things that do not exist.

So please be guided when you speak.

Suicidality is not acquired by watching TV.

PS: HIV existed but was misdiagnosed in the 80's , depression existed since the time of your ancestors but was not recognised.

JeromeBlack:



This is very ignorant. So suicide is caused by TV? Only Americans and white people have suicide in their culture abi?

The hardship, the stress, the depression and the ignorance in Nigeria cannot push one to suicide?


And a mod pushed this nonsense to front page

KingThreatzz:


Your mum is extremely cautious. I've been once suicidal before. If sniper was available then, I may not be typing this now

Dabiridamilare:

Ooops, what situation could have warranted u to think of suicide as the only last resort.
Do u mind to share....
Thank God u didn't commit it anyway, u are a living testimony.
can u just share with us and probably we learn something new.

urahara:


Before the colonial era , people lived far worse than we live today .

Gboy101:
...one thing you forget to realized is what cause suicide. the Major reason is the economy status 50 %, failed academic 10%, body shaming 10% , failed relationship 10% , social status and many more 10%.

before now it was not so. Africans don't know what economy was neither the central bank of africa or neither do they seek employment.

they were simply farmers, fishermen, Hurters and hunt gatherers. there were nothing like career, body shaming or trying to be beautiful via cosmetic surgery. life was more easy for them as an uncivilized humans.

their daily life was just to eat and not the craze over materialism and possession.

we can't rule out the fact that there weren't any suicide cases in the past, they were simply not reported. unlike what we have today the civilized population and social media.

raptex:
Worse, How?

Gboy101:
...one thing you forget to realized is what cause suicide. the Major reason is the economy status 50 %, failed academic 10%, body shaming 10% , failed relationship 10% , social status and many more 10%.

before now it was not so. Africans don't know what economy was neither the central bank of africa or neither do they seek employment.

they were simply farmers, fishermen, Hurters and hunt gatherers. there were nothing like career, body shaming or trying to be beautiful via cosmetic surgery. life was more easy for them as an uncivilized humans.

their daily life was just to eat and not the craze over materialism and possession.

we can't rule out the fact that there weren't any suicide cases in the past, they were simply not reported. unlike what we have today the civilized population and social media.

urahara:


No means of transportation

No drugs

No technology

Silly wars

Greater chances of being sold into slavery than now.

No education

Low life expectancy

raptex:
[b]They didn't need drugs cos they ate fresh fruits and rarely fell sick. [/b]Screw transportation, education and technology, why would I need them when I can enjoy nature without worries?

I'm talking about the era before slavery. People lived really long then.

raptex:
They didn't need drugs cos they ate fresh fruits and rarely fell sick. Screw transportation, education and technology, why would I need them when I can enjoy nature without worries?

I'm talking about the era before slavery. People lived really long then.