Suicide in Guyana

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^[1]Suicide in Guyana is a serious social problem, as Guyana is ranked first in suicides per capita worldwide.^[2]

About 40% of people who commit suicide in Guyana poison themselves by consuming agricultural pesticides.^[3]

The most famous case of suicide in Guyana was the mass suicide of 909 followers of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple.

Popular suicide in Guyana

On November 9, the Guyana Chronicle carried the story of a 17-year-old girl from Affiance who committed suicide by hanging herself. This followed the suicide of another 17-year-old girl from New Road, Essequibo Coast, who committed suicide by ingesting deadly poison. The Kaieteur News of November 12, 2013 reported that five men took their own lives during the previous week in just Region 6. And on Saturday a 55-year-old man from Industry on the East Coast of Demerara reportedly killed himself by burning down his house.

Those are a lot of suicides for a country with a small population the size of Guyana, no matter how one looks at it. The World Health Organisation, in its 2009 report rated Guyana as the country with the highest rates of suicide in South America and the Caribbean. Judging by the number of newspaper reports on actual suicides, it seems as though the situation hasn’t improved, but may in fact have gotten worse.

Suicide is described as “the action of killing oneself intentionally” and the reasons people commit suicide are as varied as the methods they use to commit the act.

References

↑ Ramsawak and Umraw, Rampersad and Ralph (2003). modules in social studies. La Romaine, Trinidad: caribbean educational publisher. ISBN 9768014067.
↑ "Why Does Guyana Have The Highest Suicide Rate In The World?". Retrieved 2015-08-27.
↑ Mauro, Craig (July 26, 2010). "Guyana carries continent's highest suicide rate". al Jazeera. Retrieved 2012.

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