Suicide in Bangladesh

Last updated

Suicide in Bangladesh is a common cause of unnatural death and a long term social issue. Of all the people reported dead due to suicide worldwide every year, 2.06% are Bangladeshi. [1]

Contents

Statistics

According to a report by the World Health Organization 19,697 people died by suicide in Bangladesh in 2011. [1] According to Police Headquarters 11,095 people died by suicide in Bangladesh in 2017. [2] According to a report by Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, published in 2010, around 6,500,000 people of Bangladesh are prone to suicide. The rate is 128.08 people per 100,000 dying by suicide in Bangladesh every year. The six-member team led by Dr AHM Feroz and Dr SM Nurul Islam of the medical college conducted the survey at Mominpur union of Chuadanga district from January to April 2010. But this has been noted that the above rate was assumed only based on survey conducted in one union which is not a good reflector of the total suicide rate in the whole country as total suicide rate per year is far less than what was mentioned in the report in the last couple of years. [3]

According to a report by The Daily Star , from 2002 to 2009, 73,389 people died by suicide in Bangladesh. Of these 73,389 people, 31,857 people hanged themselves and 41,532 swallowed poison to kill themselves. [4] Bangladesh Manabadhikar Bastabayan Sangstha, a human rights group of Bangladesh shows that from January 2011 to August 2011, 258 people died by suicide, and of them, 158 were women and the remainder were men. [4]

Suicide of women

According to a 2010 report by Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, of the 128.08 per 100,000 people who died by suicide in 2010, 89% were women and most of them were unmarried. [3] Statistics from Jatiya Mahila Ainjibi Samity, a Bangladeshi women's organization, show that from 2006 to 2010, 40 girls who died by suicide were victims of stalking. From 2001 to 2010, 4,747 women and girls died by suicide because of physical and domestic violence. [4]

According to a report published in the Lancet published in BBC News, suicidal tendency among women in Bangladesh is higher, because they have inferior status in society. Another factor is a higher rate of illiteracy and their economic dependence on men. [5]

2007 Adam House cult suicide

In 2007, in Mymensingh, a family of nine died by mass suicide by hurling themselves onto a train. [6] [7] According to the diaries recovered from their home, they wanted a pure life as lived by Adam and Eve, freeing themselves from bondage to any religion. [7]

Prevention

Non-profit Kaan Pete Roi provides mental health support via a free crisis helpline. [8]

Common methods

Hanging is the most common method of suicide in Bangladesh. There is no cost involvement in this method other than ligature material, i.e., a rope, and thus that is why it is the preferred method. [9] Swallowing poison is another common method in Bangladesh to die by suicide. In urban areas, people follow other methods to die by suicide, such as by an overdose of barbiturate tablets, or by other means.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy</span> Bengali barrister and politician (1892–1963)

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was a Bengali barrister and politician. He served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the Prime Minister of Bengal from 1946 to 1947 in British India. In Pakistan, Suhrawardy is revered as one of the country's founding statesmen. In Bangladesh, Suhrawardy is remembered as the mentor of Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In India, he is seen as a controversial figure; some hold him responsible for the 1946 Calcutta Killings, for which he is often referred as the "Butcher of Bengal” in West Bengal. In India he is also remembered for his performance as the Minister for Civil Supply during the Bengal famine of 1943.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dhaka Medical College and Hospital</span> Medical College and Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dhaka Medical College and Hospital is a public medical college and hospital located in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. It houses medical school as well as a tertiary care hospital on one campus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mymensingh District</span> District of Bangladesh in Mymensingh Division

Mymensingh is a district in Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh, and is bordered on the north by Meghalaya, a state of India and the Garo Hills, on the south by Gazipur District, on the east by the districts of Netrokona and Kishoreganj, and on the west by the districts of Sherpur, Jamalpur and Tangail. Mymensingh is the 8th administrative divisional headquarter and 12th city corporation of Bangladesh. According to Ministry of Public Administration, Mymensingh is ranked 4th in district status. The density of Mymensingh city is 44,458/km2 which is the second most densely populated city in Bangladesh. Mymensingh attracts 25 percent of health tourists visiting Bangladesh. Once known as the largest district of the Indian subcontinent. Mymensingh town is the district headquarters. Mymensingh had the largest economy in the nation until Mohokuma Tangail rebelled and took over more than one-third of its land by the support of Pakistan's dictatorship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sirajganj District</span> District of Bangladesh in Rajshahi Division

Sirajganj District is a district in the North Bengal region of Bangladesh, located in the Rajshahi Division. It is an economically important district of Bangladesh. Sirajganj district is the 25th largest district by area and 9th largest district by population in Bangladesh. It is known as the gateway to North Bengal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sirajganj</span> City in Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh

Sirajganj is a city in north-western Bangladesh on the right bank of the Jamuna River. It is the administrative headquarters of Sirajganj District, and with a population of 167,200 is the fourteenth most populous city in the country. It is about 110 kilometres (68 mi) north west of the capital, Dhaka. It is the city where Pakistani Brig. Jehanzeb Arbab looted the bank back in 1971 during Bangladesh liberation war. It was once a principal centre of the jute trade.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tongi</span> Township in Bangladesh

Tongi is a major township in Gazipur, Bangladesh, with a population of 350,000. It hosts the Biswa Ijtema and features a BSCIC industrial area, which produces BDT 1500 crore of industrial products annually, and marks the northern border of Dhaka since 1786. Tongi Shahid Smrity high School compound is mass burial site of the genocide in Liberation War of Bangladesh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bangladesh Football Federation</span> National football organisations of Bangladesh

Bangladesh Football Federation is the governing body that administrates the sport of association football in Bangladesh. It is in charge of running the country's men's and women's national teams, as well as the Bangladesh Premier League and various other competitions and tournaments. The BFF was one of founding members of the South Asian Football Federation. It is based at BFF Bhaban, in the Motijheel Thana of the country's capital, Dhaka.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abdul Jabbar (activist)</span> Bengali language movement protester (1919–1952)

Abdul Jabbar was a protester who was killed during the Bengali language movement in 1952 that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan. He is considered a martyr in Bangladesh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University</span> Public medical university in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is a graduate medical university in Bangladesh. It was established in 1965. The university offers postgraduate degrees only, not offering undergraduate medical or dental degrees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tofazzal Hossain Manik Miah</span> Bengali politician and journalist (c.1911–1969)

Tofazzal Hossain, popularly known as Manik Miah, was a Pakistani Bengali journalist and politician. He served as the founding editor of The Daily Ittefaq. He wrote the editorial Rajnoitik Moncho. Most of his journalists were considered leftist as Miah followed the pattern of Awami League. According to journalist and editor of Shongbad Bozlur Rahman, Awami activists followed his editorial more than any actual decision of a meeting. He was a close associate of the founder of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abdul Monem Khan</span> Pakistani politician

Abdul Monem Khan was a Pakistani politician who was the longest serving governor of East Pakistan during 1962–1969.

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College (ShSMC) is a public medical college and hospital located in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. This medical college is the third public medical college in the government medical college rank after DMC & SSMC. It has been included in the Avicenna Directory of Medical Schools and International Medical Education Directory (IMED).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kaan Pete Roi</span>

Kaan Pete Roi is an emotional support helpline in Bangladesh.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wasim (actor)</span> Bangladeshi actor (1947–2021)

Mesbahuddin Ahmed, known by his stage name Wasim, was a Bangladeshi film actor.

Abdur Rahim was a Bangladesh Army officer who served as the Director General of National Security Intelligence from 2001 to 2005.

Abbas Ali Mandal was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as Member of Parliament of Joypurhat-1.

References

  1. 1 2 "Bangladesh Suicide". worldlifeexpectancy.com. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Suicide on the rise in Bangladesh". Dhaka Tribune. 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
  3. 1 2 "Survey says Bangladesh's 6.5 million people of suicide-prone" . Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 "10,000 commit suicide a year". The Daily Star. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  5. ↑ "Bangladeshi women 'at risk of suicide'". BBC News. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Selim, Nasima (2010). "An extraordinary truth? The Ādam "suicide" notes from Bangladesh". Mental Health, Religion & Culture. 13 (3): 223–244. doi:10.1080/13674670903061230.
  7. 1 2 "Mymensingh joint suicide defies common sense". No. 1. BDNews24.com. BDNews24.com. 12 July 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Kaan Pete Roi: An emotional support helpline in Bangladesh". UNB. 6 February 2022.
  9. ↑ Ahmad, M; Hossain, MZ (14 March 2011). "Hanging as a Method of Suicide: Retrospective Analysis of Postmortem Cases". Journal of Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh. 6 (2). doi: 10.3329/jafmc.v6i2.7273 .
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.