How to minimise rising cases of teen suicide

Of late the media has been awash with reports of suicide cases in our society. These cases have involved both adults and adolescents. The low and the mighty. Suicide has been with us since the dawn of civilization. However, like all deaths, we are never prepared for it. In traditional African societies, victims were seen as an aberration to the community.

We had little knowledge on what might make an individual to decide that life was no longer worth living. The victim was accorded a burial which was unique in various ways. However, today our knowledge on the causal factors have so advanced that victims are known to be patients requiring medical intervention.