Suicidal tendency among undergraduate students and their social environment: A socio-legal study

Death anxiety or suicidal tendency among undergraduate students is very must related to social environment of an individual. So, if we study about death anxiety we must carefully observed the social environment of the individual so that we could find the real situation or causes of death anxiety. Social environment according to dictionary of sociology, “ that part of environment consisting of the interacting persons and group, and including social expectations, patterns of social organization, and all other aspects of society.” It includes expectations internalized by the individual, and thus even when the individual is alone he still has a social environment. On the other hand anxiety is an emotional state characterized by extreme apprehensiveness. Anxiety is a learned emotional response related to fear but differing from fear in that it tends to be of longer duration, of disproportionate intensity, more pervasive of the personality, and lacking a clear focus on a specific object. In this paper we should try to find out all the possible causes of death anxiety and make suggestion for maximized the incident of death anxiety among students. Many scientific studies shows that compared to the individuals of average abilities and intelligence, far more suicide are committed by persons of bright intelligence and high talents. Death anxiety to be linearly related to age with teenagers and young, adults.