"I am fine" was her suicide note.

We come across, unfortunately with great frequency, many reports about student suicides, especially students belonging to elite institutions. Why would a young, hardworking, bright student who has the world ahead of him, do something like that?

The answer is simple- in our constant reverence for a great institution, we forget it's dark side. And the dark side is that we are afflicted by the quintessential Indian phenomenon of academic pressure, probably the highest in the world, and sometimes the pressure gets too much.

Leave alone academics, teenagers these days need a reason to suicide, be it, betrayal in love, disappointment in love, irreversible adolescence mistakes, parental separation, distress in the home environment and this is just the start the list just goes on and on.

The rationale for killing is simple-nobody loves me, my scores are awful, I have no future, what difference would it make to the world if I was not there? I have too many problems, I can't deal with all this anymore and yet again, the list goes on and on. People who commit suicide don't want to die-they just want it to stop hurting. It is a desperate attempt to escape suffering that has become unbearable.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that approximately 1 million people die each year from suicides. Remove guns, drugs, knives, poisons and other potentially lethal objects from the vicinity but do not, under any circumstances leave a suicidal person alone.

SO, IF YOU SEE A DISTRESSED YOUNG SOUL, LEND A SUPPORTIVE SHOULDER AND A NON-JUDGMENTAL EAR.

So, when we take this dreadful decision, all the lives linked to ours are shattered. I think we all need to learn to confide in our elders, they are our first people, they are the ones who'll help us when we need it the most. No matter what we go through in life, if God wanted us to take our own life, he would have provided a power off button. He didn't, so have faith and let his plan unfold for you.

BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW TOUGH LIFE GETS AND HOW MUCH IT HURTS, IF STREET DOGS DON'T GIVE UP THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE THE SMART SPECIES SHOULD. MAKES SENSE, RIGHT?