An Age-Based Legal Study on Suicide and Attempt to Suicide in Bangladesh: A Critical Legal Analysis

Abstract

Bangladesh is not an exception to the overlooked nature of suicide as a public health issue worldwide. Unfortunately, suicide e all too often fails to be prioritized as a major public health problem. Worldwide, one million people take their own lives e ach year. Throughout the world, suicide Rates have increased by 65% in the last 45 years (World Health Organization, 2020). Asia accounts for 60% of all suicide cases worldwide, with Bangladesh having the highest rate at 39.6 per 100,000 people. Suicide is the second most common cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 and 24 worldwide, and it can happen at any point in lifetime (World Health Organization, 2021). Additionally, there are roughly 20–30 times as many attempts at suicide. According to World Health Organization (WHO) predictions for the year 2020, roughly 1.53 million people will die by suicide and 10–20 times as many people will attempt suicide globally, which equates to an average of one suicide death and one attempt every 1-2 seconds. In Bangladesh nowadays, suicide is an everyday occurrence. According to the World Health Organization 2020 report, the country experiences about 10,000 suicide deaths per year. In Bangladesh, it is the second major cause of injury-related death in those aged 20 to 39 and the fourth main cause of all injury-related deaths overall. Self-destruction is a worldwide issue that rises above hindrances of culture, geology, religion, social class, and financial status. While Self-destructive way of behaving is impacted by a few collaborating factors - individual, social, mental, social, organic and ecological - sorrow is the most widely recognized mental problem in individuals who pass on by self-destruction. About portion of all people in top level salary nations who kick the bucket by self-destruction have significant burdensome problem at the hour of their passing. Besides, a background marked by self-destruction endeavors is a powerful gamble factor for death by self-destruction. WHO has assessed that the 26% of the universes populace living in The 11 nations of the WHO South-East Asia Locale represents 39% of worldwide suicides (World Wellbeing Association, 2021). In this way, WHO centers on self-destruction counteraction and approached the nations to devise public self-destruction avoidance procedures. Bangladesh is a thickly populated country and its economy is increasing in South Asia having more occurrence pace of self-destruction than the other Asian nations. Current survey uncovers that self-destruction rates in South Asia are high contrasted with the worldwide normal, despite everything there is a scant of Dependable information on self-destruction rates in South Asia. Till now there is no public self-destruction reconnaissance framework. Other than no cross country concentrate on self-destructive gamble factors has been at this point started .Besides, it is as yet a criminal offense in the general set of laws. Strict and social elements keep on affecting the determination and enlisting of suicides as well as families don't uncover the real essence of the demonstration, inspired by a paranoid fear of badgering by police and social disgrace. The literary works on self-destruction are as yet restricted in Bangladesh setting, and there is no exhaustive article on self-destruction in Bangladesh setting. Existing articles center around the particular technique for self-destruction, for example, hanging and harming as well as the quest for the relationship of mental problem with self-destruction is poor. The current story survey was led to give an extensive comprehension of self-destructive setting in Bangladesh in light of the current writing concerning commonness of self-destruction, and other self-destruction measurements like self-destructive elements, strategies for self-destruction, effects of self-destruction on family and society level, preventive methodology, and legitimate viewpoints.