1Assistant Professor, Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
2Professor, Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Gondia, Maharashtra
Online published on 16 August, 2018.
‘Suicide is characterized as the final common pathway of diverse circumstances, of an interdependent network rather than an isolated cause, a web of circumstances tightening around a single time and space1. The maximum number of suicide in young adult (20-40years) may be attributed to various factor. Victim who belongs to upper lower class which constitutes 50.33% of cases followed by lower class (17.67%), Most of the suicides were seen in unemployed (26%), of which 16% (i.e.46.15% out of total of total female) were housewives followed by students (18.33%). In present study most of the victims, i.e. 41.33% cases were educated up to 8–12 standard followed by 24.67% cases up to 7th standard, 21.34% the method used by young adult (20–40) years for committing suicides was commonly hanging (20.66%) closely followed by Poisoning 60(20%),
Suicide, Unemployed, young adult, hanging and poisoning
