India and the right to suicide
December 31, 2014 16:28
"My mother was a chronic suicide. We paid again and again. When one day she had a genuine accident while crossing the road, a police officer turned up again, convinced she had been at it once more. My father paid so much that time, in hospital bills and bribes, that we had to give up the dream of moving to a bigger home.
"Not all people who attempt suicide are mentally ill: There are Indians who want to kill themselves for religious reasons, like some Jains, or out of political conviction."
Jerry Pinto, writer, poet, raconteur, on the government's decision to decriminalise suicide. Read
"Not all people who attempt suicide are mentally ill: There are Indians who want to kill themselves for religious reasons, like some Jains, or out of political conviction."
Jerry Pinto, writer, poet, raconteur, on the government's decision to decriminalise suicide. Read
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