Increasing Rate of Suicides
Statistics have shown that there is an increase in the rate of suicides and attempted suicides all over the world. Though the rate seem to indicate that young girls have been noticed to have much to experience in this department-some say the rate has jumped from 11% to 13% from 1999 to 2015-the young men also have a high rate of success in committing suicide. This has been attributed to the fact that boys use more violent means to achieve their aim. For example, they may decide to shoot themselves or jump out of the window of a high-rise building, or jump into the lagoon. The later is mostly they preferred method in Nigeria, where economic crisis engendered by mis-governance is the order of the day. But poison is usually the ladies' preference. Bu this article is not interested in the statistics but in the root cause-spiritual and physical. Suicides have emotional problems they believe they want to escape from. They are people who, probably had a problem in their past lives, came...