Open AccessSuicide and the Law: Indian Perspective
Author(s) -
Nikhilesh Mondal
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
bengal journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2348-9227
DOI - 10.51332/bjp.2019.v24.i1.76
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , suicide prevention , psychology , assisted suicide , right to die , psychiatry , poison control , criminology , medical emergency , medicine , mathematics , geometry
Suicide is defined as an act in which a person intentionally causes his/her own death. In India, the number of people who ended their lives by committing suicide was 131, 666[1] in 2014; 133, 623[2] in 2015; and 230, 314[3] in 2016. Attempt to die by suicide is defined as a nonfatal and self-injurious behavior with an intent to die. For every death by suicide, on an average, 25 people attempt to die by suicide.[4-6]