Suryakumar TVIT BSSocial Marketing

INTRODUCTION• Suicide is a self impose death

with the intent to die.• "act of taking one's own life".• Suicide prevention camp is

driven targeting everyone for awareness.

• Objective of the campaign is to intervene people who are showing the sign of suicide.

• Assisted suicide is when one individual helps another bring about their own death indirectly via providing either advice or the means to the end.

• This is in contrast to euthanasia, where another person takes a more active role in bringing about a person's death.

• Happens officially over Netherland, Belgium, Switzerland. While on other places it is illegal.

REASONS OF SUICIDE

• Poverty and Inflation• Unemployment / Financial

Insecurity• Lack of education• Frustration• Depression• Uncertainty• Lack of parental support.• Relationship Problem

WAYS ADOPTED FOR SUICIDE

• Suicide bombings• Poisoning• Hanging• Firearms• Drowning• Self-Immolation• Jumping• Use of medicines (in

minority).• Ingestion of insecticides.

ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Suicide can be decreased by:

• Educating people• Notify people who overcome

failures – Joseph Conrad (Author of Book:

Heart of Darkness and filmed as Apocalypse Now)

• Don’t report descriptions of suicide methods.

• Avoid repetition and the word “suicide” in news.

• Avoid dramatic visuals.• Take particular care when

reporting celebrity suicides.– Robin Williams (Hollywood actor)

CONTROLLING SUICIDE• Suicide prevention programs

should be integrated.• Suicide prevention telephone

hotlines.• Initiating school based

interventions.• Suicide prevention interventions

should be pre-emptive rather than reactive.

• Media can educate public about suicide prevention.

• Suicide stories can inform readers about symptoms, warnings and treatments for suicide.

• Youth Suicide prevention• Yellow Ribbon• LIFE• HOPE• Native Cry

Initiative: VIDIYAL

Suicide is a

PERMANENT solution

for a TEMPORARY

problem

AVOID IT..!