There they go again!

This is the fourth attempt at suicide by a student that I came across after I entered IIT and the third successful one. That makes it roughly one per semester. The reasons ranged from love-failure to low grades to financial crisis. Today was the fourth and it was a student who had an 8 plus grade on a scale of ten and had also won a scholarship. He belonged to the batch of first year students of M.Sc in Mathematics.
There is nothing heroic about their deed that makes me write here. Just feelings of pity at their state of mind when they attempt suicide. I am still unable to comprehend what it is precisely that makes them think that death is the only solution to their problems! What makes them leave everyone near and dear at times of need, totally defeating the purpose of having near and dear ones! Most importantly, at the age of twenty five and odd, when people make plans to live, they make plans to die and succeed. How much of life have we seen at this age to decide against it?
As Sidney Sheldon explains in his "The Other Side of Me", "Life is a novel and you never know what awaits you on the next page. Turn it to know whats in store and don't ever close the book before". True isn't it?

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