No time to die: Shaken and stirred

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From Dr Venugopal BalchandLast week, somebody I know took her own life. She was very young and had the whole world at her feet. Yet she chose to shoot an own goal.I was shaken. The incident stirred up a lot of different emotions in me. Here I was, part of a very prominent, active and efficient mental health coalition and chairman of its focus group on decriminalisation of attempted suicides, and yet I could not protect someone within arm’s reach. How did she slip through the net into the vast expanse of silence and darkness? Could somebody, anybody have helped her? This person had chosen an almost foolproof way to die. Can you even imagine the agony she must have gone through while meticulously planning to end it all? Like planning to kill the enemy within while ensuring there were no losers?Statistics from the police show that between January and May, 468 people committed suic…