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Suicide has come to be a curse across generations. The situation has become very alarming in this time where we are seeing it as a most detestable and abominable style/fashion. Speaking from a spiritual perspective, suicide multiplies what ever problems we are trying to escape from in this life. We only succeed in perpetually stagnating our spiritual evolutionary cycle and suffer in eternal perdition. Suicide kills more people each year than road traffic accidents in most European countries, the World Health Organization said . And worldwide, suicide takes more lives than murder and war put together. The death toll from suicide – at almost one million people per year – accounts for half of all violent deaths worldwide, says the WHO. “Estimates suggest fatalities could rise to 1.5 million by 2020,” the agency warned on Wednesday. "Suicide is a tragic global public health problem,” says Catherine Le Galès-Camus, WHO’s assistant director general for non-communicable diseases and mental health. “There is an urgent need for coordinated and intensified global action to prevent this needless toll." Muslim countries The number of suicides in most European countries exceeds the number of annual traffic fatalities, says the WHO. In 2001, the global toll from suicide was greater than the 500,000 deaths from homicide and the 230,000 deaths from war combined. And an estimated 10 to 20 million people survive failed suicide attempts each year, resulting in injury, hospitalization and trauma, says the agency. However, the ultimate extent of the problem is unknown as full reliable data is unavailable. The highest suicide rates are found in Eastern Europe, says WHO, whereas people in Latin America, Muslim countries and a few Asian nations are least likely to die by their own hand. Suicide rates tend to increase with age but “there has recently been an alarming worldwide increase in suicidal behaviors amongst young people aged 15 to 25”, warns WHO. Men also successfully commit suicide more than women – with the exception of rural China and parts of India.

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