The suicide syndrome of three schoolgirls and a male student, the most recent being an abused 15 year old schoolgirl from Kotahena, has caused a serious social issue in Sri Lanka which is daid to be a country with an alarming bad record of suicide deaths.
Similarly, appalling has been the deaths of two teenagers, a boy and girl who had reportedly jumped to their deaths from atop a luxury apartment in Colombo 6 Wellawatte, and a fourth suicide of an 18 year old schoolgirl who had jumped from the 29th floor of the high fly arts and cultural performing theatre the Lotus Tower last year having purchased a basement ticket meant for observation, and changed her school uniform for a year coloured dress before jumping to her death.
The three shockwave suicides apparently had a similarity. The Wellawatte tragedy if the boy and girl had arrived in gym clothes which they changed before reaching the 67th floor from an outside staircase from where they had jumped hitting the basement of the third floor.
The bottom line to such a growing alarming social trend is a reflection of an eroding education system that has failed to address youth issues and the evil influence if drugs that have targeted schools.
The other can of worms Sabaragamuwa University student’s death driven to taking his own life recently is an indictment of the country’s education system where a majority of undergrads regarded as intellectuals of the young generation seeking diplomas for high end professions to serving society have turned out to be depraved cynic monsters who rag fellow colleagues to literally causing their deaths. The suicides within the campuses do highlight this dracula trend in a baffling situation as to the inability of the university authorities to take the right deterrent extreme measures to save innocent lives.
As it is the negativeness if vice chancellors rendering then puppets to ridding the cancer in a continuing evil trend is a huge unsolved puzzle.