According to WHO, around 800 000 people die due to suicide every year, which means one person ends his life every 40 seconds around the world. Suicide is a global phenomenon that needs to be checked immediately. Stress, trauma and other mental disorders are some of the common reasons that lead a person to take the extreme step.
And, spreading awareness about the same is our responsibility as humans! But controversial writer Taslima Nasreen thinks otherwise. She is apparently worried about the ‘painful ways’ like slitting one’s wrist or jumping in front of a train that people opt for to commit suicide. And so, she has suggested a less painful way to commit suicide that will ‘help a person die peacefully’.
Sharing her thoughts in a Twitter post, Taslima wrote, “So many painless ways to commit suicide. why hang yourself, drown yourself, or cut your wrist, why jump from the high rise building or the bridge, or swallow pesticide, or poison or why jump in front of an oncoming train? Take the lethal doses of morphine and die peacefully.”
So many painless ways to commit suicide. why hang yourself, drown yourself, or cut your wrist, why jump from the high rise building or the bridge, or swallow pesticide, or poison or why jump in front of an oncoming train? Take the lethal doses of morphine and die peacefully.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 1, 2019
Her post, quite obviously, did not go well with the Twitterati. Taslima has received massive backlash for her insensitive and provoking words. While some have tagged her as mentally ill, others have called her out for her ignorant and unhelpful tweet.
Morphine doses will require access and knowledge. Far more simple would be to just read your rantings.
(But I agree the end would be even more painful)— Akash Banerjee (@TheDeshBhakt) August 1, 2019
This is an ignorant, insensitive, and unhelpful tweet. People don't commit #suicide for fun or out of choice. They attempt suicide bec they are depressed, desperate, in despair. They don't sit down and do an option appraisal. Public figures should tweet wisely or not at all.
— JayEnAar (@GorwayGlobal) August 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/RoshanKrRai/status/1156948472668360707?s=20
Seriously what an insensitive thing to say : u r actually suggesting ways for suicide which is illegal
— pallavi ghosh (@_pallavighosh) August 1, 2019
U r a writer. This was a little insensitive from you. Those who crosses this path are beyond pain and physical pain is least for them. The despair they are going through kills them before they commit. I have met few and know their despair. Physical pain does not even bother them.
— Dr. Ravi (@DrRaviSSingh) August 1, 2019
In response to the flak that she has been receiving, Taslima defended herself in another tweet and said that she did not aim to encourage suicide.
I am not encouraging people to die. I am asking people who decided to commit suicide or who is determined to commit suicide, to get a peaceful way to do it. It is a positive tweet.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) August 1, 2019
no it is not a positive tweet…people who decided to commit suicide are gone, they arent reading your tweet…but people who may be determined, should be told not to commit suicide instead of how to commit suicide.
please tweet responsibly— arundhati singh (@arundhatisinghk) August 1, 2019
Taslima Nasreen was originally a Bangladeshi resident. She was boycotted from her nation in 1994 because of her anti-Islamic writings and was given asylum in India by the government.