Nigeria is in the firm grip of the epidemic of suicide. From the sun-baked land of Yola to the marshy creeks of the Niger Delta, from the urbane coal city of Enugu to the boisterous Lagos, we hear morbid testimonies about people that killed themselves. Our younger individuals's embracing of suicide as a way of escapism has bought to an alarming and annoying dimension.
until now, in Igbo land, Southeast of Nigeria, it's a sacrilegious act for a person to kill himself. here, in Igbo land, we don't function funeral ceremonies for suicides. they are ignominiously wrapped in cloths and thrown into dense forests, where wild beasts will feast on them. After that, a standard medicine man may be invited to cleanse his household apartment to keep away from recurrence of such evil and despicable act in future. Chinua Achebe's fictive and anthropological novel, issues Fall aside, offers us insight and elucidation on suicide.
It isn't most effective the Igbo custom that frowns at suicide. The Christian faith is condemnatory of it, too. The Bible exhorts us to are trying to find God's intercession when we are experiencing existential complications. Our Christian clerics do urge us to undertaking religion within the teachings of Jesus Christ and pin our hope on Christ, who is the ransom for our sins. it's an undeniable incontrovertible fact that no religions, which can be practised with the aid of the individuals(s) of the earth, approve of americans to take their personal lives. The act of committing suicide by means of individuals is perceived as an act of cowardice by means of adherents of many religions.
but seeing that the epidemic of suicide broke out in Nigeria, this query has been agitating our minds: Why do seemingly imperturbable people commit suicide? individuals take their lives for variety of motives like depression, impecuniousness, betrayals in relationships, failures in academics and company, psychiatric problems, drug dependancy, and others.
In today's Nigeria, our economic system is so grossly mismanaged that millions of Nigerians live below the breadline owing to their joblessness. Yet, our universities, polythenics, and other schools still churn our graduates who join the transforming into variety of the unemployed people in the nation. So because of these people's hopelessness, impecuniousness, and the non-existence of love among us, innumerable unemployed americans and others, who had suffered privations, took their lives in the contemporary past. A civil servant in Kogi State, who was owed arrears of revenue through the state executive, killed himself after his wife become delivered of a child some years ago.
however it's no longer only the dire financial condition obtaining in our nation that predisposes or compels people to do hara-kiri. here, cuckolds do kill themselves, too. In Nigeria, many americans selected the direction of suicide upon their discovery that their other halves had cuckolded them and bore infants, who don't seem to be biologically their personal babies. As they could not reside with the disgrace and the betrayal they suffered, they determined to do themselves in. Some ladies did themselves damage when their boyfriends threw them over for different desirable ladies. Some days in the past, an undergraduate of college of Benin, Christabel Buoro, killed herself as a result of her boyfriend jilted her.
extra, so some Nigerians had taken their personal lives because of their disasters to recognise their desires in the areas of tutorial and company. They concept themselves beneath- achievers and the rejects of society; as a result, they dedicated suicide. And it's a established indisputable fact that bereavements may cause individuals to experience bouts of melancholy, which make them liable to romanticizing the concept of committing suicide. And individuals who've psychiatry or intellectual instances emanating from their intake of difficult drugs or hereditary components are at risk of committing suicide if they're now not appropriately monitored and treated.
in addition to these, young individuals who are exposed to mystical books can beginning deliberating demise and existence hereafter after digesting the teachings in those books. My fb chum, one Goddy, put up a fb submit announcing and indicating his intention to leave our terra firma as quickly as viable. once I visited his fb wall for perusal, I found that he has been studying books, which have imbued and given him tremendous knowledge about dying and the life hereafter.
with a view to stem the tide of suicide in Nigeria, governments at distinct stages may still enforce economic measures to ameliorate our individuals's sufferings. And, our leaders should still diversify the economic climate to create job opportunities for unemployed individuals in the nation. greater so, non secular clerics may still no longer cease to motivate their followers to continue reposing faith in God in place of committing suicide.
And there is pressing need in Nigeria for our faculties to instruct many greater psychiatrists, who can deal with hundreds of thousands of Nigerians who're littered with mental ailments, which could predispose them to commit suicide.
Chiedu Uche Okoye,
Uruowulu-Obosi,
Anambra State
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