The underlying cause of 70 per cent of suicides is depression. For every suicide, around ten more attempted suicides would have occurred.  The Hindu, said that a government directive on treating a patient jointly by a general physician and a psychiatrist for every attempted suicide case could perhaps help in detecting depression and bringing...

Suicides have now become so commonplace that they are now the second leading cause of death amongst the youth. What drives a person to take such a radical step like suicide? If you are going through suicidal thoughts very often, what should you do to avoid succumbing to them?  One could choose to end his life for a plethora of reasons....