Suicide ideation: Past, present and future

Abstract

Suicide may be a small and simple word but it is considered as a very complex phenomenon. Even a single news of suicide shakes the soul of the listener to the core and the person is forced to think why and for how long. It leaves a terrible and far-reaching effect on the psyche of the whole society. The completion of any suicide depends on the three stages - thinking, planning, and attempting. Researchers have been trying to find the causes of suicide by various determinants of suicide. There is a list of innumerable causes of suicide available but it is difficult to say which one is the reason why a particular person committed suicide and can the same reason lead to suicide for other people as well. Even today the research is going on that which bio-psycho-social and geographical factors are responsible concerning age and gender.