Suicide Rate in Malaysia

[chenchow]

Although it is estimated that Malaysia has eight to 12 suicides per 100,000 people a year, the figures could be more.

The sentence above is quoted from Professor T. Maniam of the Psychiatric Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in NST.

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/20040907075257/Article/indexb_html

This would translate to 2000-3000 suicides a year in Malaysia, with the 25 million population. This is a staggering statistic.

Anyone has any thoughts on this?

[topdog]

i wonder what percentage of that were engineers.:-/

[digimushu]

Nah.. most likely aspiring med students...hehehe

[yekban81]

Nah.. most likely aspiring med students...hehehe

I agree...haha

We could analyze more about the staggering number of suicide rate. How many percentage out of the total suicide is by a person with mental illness, by teenage, and adult?

[gatecrasher]

could it be a result of the "dasar pandang timur"? heheheh...

[yekban81]

Dasar Pandang Timur? You mean the eastern people is prone to commit suicide due to certain reasons, don't you. How true is it?
Just know that Singapore and Japan is hot with cases on student commiting suicide out of failure in academic:(

[gatecrasher]

Dasar Pandang Timur? You mean the eastern people is prone to commit suicide due to certain reasons, don't you. How true is it?
aiyo...

Just know that Singapore and Japan is hot with cases on student commiting suicide out of failure in academic:(
now that's what i mean! :) japan, specifically, which the dasar pandang timur was supposed to emulate.

[retroque]

an excerption from an article in The Japan times


record 34,327 people commited suicide in Japan last year.

The figure, up 7.1 percent from the previous year, remained above 30,000 for the sixth consecutive year, the National Police Agency said in a report released Thursday.

The report says 8,897 people killed themselves over financial difficulties, up 12.1 percent from a year earlier and topping 8,000 for the first time since the NPA began keeping statistics on suicides in 1978




34 thousand!!!!!!!!!and there's some sort of forum on the net..(in japanese)...that advertise 'suicide partners'.these are people who wants to commit suicide but would prefer not to do alone....so they advertise it on the net .

eg:....jump off a cliff together.....etc2.....

[yekban81]

Crazy japanese...( to those concerned only)

no wonder their suicide number is so high ~34000 per year as compared to our country 2000~3000 case per year.
i think the internet must be one of the factor of promoting suicide among japanese. I am sick of that:(
but hold on...japan is much larger than Malaysia. So perhaps if we take into account too the number of population, the rate may become similar with our rate.

[retroque]

yep....japan's population is about 120 million...
so msia rate is about the same as japan..???

i wonder how msians commit suicide..?hang themselves?

[yekban81]

Inquisitive thinking should not be used in this way. You want try? Haha..just joking

I dont know whether the rate is about the same...

I think suicide has correlation to the family background and mental illness. A person bornt in a loving family will not commit such act when encountering failure or etc. since the family love should be able to support that person mentally.

Do you think Japanese family bond is much better than of our country?
I just know that Japanese has the culture of which can encourage close relationship among family.

[phantom]

what about the data about those "attempting suicide"?

i guess if that data are taken into account,we will see a whopping figure becoz i assume,somehow,some of us in of our past life days might have lose the utmost reason to live and therefore have an inclination,amid being so iota,to kill ourselves.

any data on that?

[digimushu]

IMHO, suicide is a very dumb thing to do. its like running away from a problem and not finding a solution to it. However, AFAIK, i must say that i feel suicide happens because a person has lost all hope in life and have nothing else to live for.(or at least that is what he/she thinks).

Can someone tell me who is more prone to commting suicide in m'sia? Male or female? My gut tells me its female because of the emotional part but i remember from psychology class that it is proven that females can be more 'hardy' than guys.

[zAiTsEv]

Crazy japanese...( to those concerned only)

no wonder their suicide number is so high ~34000 per year as compared to our country 2000~3000 case per year.
i think the internet must be one of the factor of promoting suicide among japanese. I am sick of that:(
but hold on...japan is much larger than Malaysia. So perhaps if we take into account too the number of population, the rate may become similar with our rate.

the "bushido" spirit is strong amongst them. i guess that explains the situation.

[astraltruist]

IMHO i think females might not be prone because they tend to open up n cry their problems to their friends, family etc. compared to males who usually keep to themselves.

[Ic3b3rg]

Causes of suicide:
1. Loneliness -

Social man necessarily presupposes a society which he expresses or serves. If this dissolves, if we can no longer feel it in existence and action about and above us. whatever is social in us is deprived of all objective foundation... Thus we are bereft of reasons for existence: for the only life to which we could cling no longer corresponds to anything actual; the only existence still based upon reality no longer meets our needs... So there is nothing more for our efforts to lay hold of, and we feel them lose themselves in emptiness

2. Altruistic reasons-

we find several categories of suicide -- men on the threshold of old age, women upon the deaths of their husbands, followers and servants upon the deaths of their chiefs -- in which the person kills himself because it is his duty

3. Disruptions in a stable life-

Briefly, when society is disturbed by some crisis, its "scale" is altered and its members are "reclassified"33 accordingly; in the ensuing period of dis-equilibrium, society is temporarily incapable of exercising its regulative function, and the lack of constraints imposed on human aspirations makes happiness impossible. This explains why periods of economic disaster, like those of sudden prosperity, are accompanied by an increase the number of suicides, and also why countries long immersed in poverty have enjoyed a relative immunity to self-inflicted death.

Btw, if you know of anyone who wants to commit suicide because of depression, please never tell that person that committing suicide is morally wrong, because society's judgement is definitely not high on his priority list. :wink: oh, and i think ppl who want to commit suicide aren't cowards. It really takes a lot of courage to take your life, cos' most ppl are afraid of death. It is just that nobody told them that if they have to courage to abandon everything they have in life, they also possess the courage needed to continue living and facing all the problems they have to face. just my 2 cents

http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/Summaries/suicide.html

[gal_flower]

do u guys think that it is wise to hush up suicide cases?