As the world suicide prevention day approaches us on 10^th September my mind is still fresh from article that I had written How to commit suicide and the response I achieved from it. The idea behind the article was to attract people who were looking to commit suicide and make them re-think about their decision. I am not sure how much successful I have become but even if it had helped one person to change his mind it’s a personal victory for me. I have always thought about suicide as the action one takes at the flick of the moment and it is that moment, which if passes, one realizes the blunder he was about to commit. But the fact remains that the people who commit suicide are not able to pass that moment and leave behind them much pain and sorrow for others especially their loved ones.

I was reading this article How Families find hope after suicide and my mind circled backs to the damage, people who commit suicide, do to themselves and their families. One action of one person leaves behind a trail that pulls other people to commit the same thing. As stated in article 42% people who commit suicide are among those who have seen other people closely related to them do it. The venom propagates like virus and instead of taking the life head one people end up choosing wrong role models.

We all live with a hope and there is hope in decreasing such number of large cases with suicide prevention steps which we all can undertake at individual and broader levels. Below are some steps for suicide prevention

1)     Listen – It is important to listen to people who are in deep pain and work with them for some solution. It is important to help them get peace of their mind or a direction that does not lead to dead end. If no solution is in sight, it is important to keep the discussion going and keep the ray of hope alive

2)     Symptoms- Many a time’s people are not willing to talk or share their problems. But they do give lot of signals that point in certain direction. It is important for us not to get ignorant of them and take them very seriously.

3)     Seeking Help- There is no harm in seeking professional help for the person who is finding it difficult to cope up with life. The help is available in many form and the references for the same are available by searching over internet

4)     Attention- People who have seen suicide in their families or their circle needs a special help too. While it important for adults it is highly important for the children too. We can always reason out with adults but with children we have to be a step ahead to help them sail through the bad time.

5)     Awareness- Suicide at many places is perceived as a social stigma. This makes it all the less talked about subject. It is important to increase the awareness at all levels for suicide prevention.  Suicide and suicide prevention should get the attention it needs to help people cope with it for themselves and for their near and dear ones.

6)     Intervention- Lot of people turns everyday to internet to search for easy methods to commit suicide or how to commit suicide. One of way to prevent suicide is by making sure people don’t have access to common methods of suicide. Having no access to firearms, pesticides, lethal chemicals has proved effective worldwide to curb this rate.

7)     Health- There are certain conditions like depression that leads to suicide. An effective prevention technique is treatment of such problems and giving such people due attention.

8)     Abuse- Alcohol, drugs etc are many methods that makes people more vulnerable to suicide. Identifying and selectively helping such people can be a definite step towards suicide prevention.

9)     Special Focus- People who have attempted suicide once needs special attention too. Though the moment has passed for them but it is not the definite sign. Suicide prevention and help becomes all the important in such cases

10)Larger Level- Suicide definitely needs to be taken at larger levels within families, communities, groups, local and national arenas so that various support groups, help lines  can be formed that  are easily accessible and give people with suicidal traits an opportunity to reconsider their decision.

In my last article best way to commit suicide I had looked into all the reasons that can lead to suicide and how one can reason them out. It was an attempt towards the direction of suicide prevention. Through this article I have tried to urge people to give attention to the people they love and care about so that they do not take the extreme step. The last thing I remember “Life is what we see it to be and it is all the more special because of people around us”.

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On of the basic human characteristics is the ability to attach a symbolic meaning to an object or an action. Conscience, and the ability to rationalize has given the human race a specific need for communication on every level. Communicating thru speech isn’t as important as we make it out to be, scientist agreeing that more than 80 per cent of communication is non-verbal. So what is the rest: it is mainly body language but at it’s very core it is all about symbolism and symbolic gestures. Symbolism is basically a form of boiling down certain characteristics and attributing them to one specific object or gesture.  So…let’s see some symbolism examples in order to get a clearer understanding of the concept.

1.      Lion. Symbolism has been around from the first signs of human consciousness. In many African tribes today we can see that power fertility or other basic human characteristics are symbolized by specific creatures. Chieftains of tribes will always try to show their power thru symbolism, by decorating themselves with claws, coats, or teeth from the most majestic and imposing creatures like the lion. In literature, the lion is called the  king of the jungle, and in almost every culture, it is a symbol of power and strength.

2.      The dove. The dove is the universal symbol for peace. A white dove carrying an olive branch has retained this symbolism of peace from the Old Testament story of Noah’s Ark. Since then, this symbol has crossed over into other cultures as well, so now, a white dove is generally recognized as an international sign of peace. As far as symbolism examples go, this is one of the most recognizable.

3.      Fox. Many of the first symbols that humans used were almost invariably related to key characteristics of animals. As lion was a sign of power, and the white dove a symbol for peace, so the fox became a symbol for cunningness. Although it is most times referred to as a character defect, the symbol of the fox can be in some cases, such as military strategy one of the most important attributes you can adorn on somebody.

4.      Fire. In addition to animals, natural phenomenon’s  are often used as symbols of a certain state of mind or of a spiritual experience. Probably from its first discovery fire was a symbol for damnation. Fire is essential to our survival and in  many cultures especially Eastern cultures, fire is seen as one of the basic elements that make up life. In Western philosophy however has attributed the symbol of Hell to fire. This is a clear example which shows us that religion in this case Christianity has a big role in how we perceive the World.

5.      Cupid’s arrow. One of the most unlikely symbols for love has become the arrow. The myth of Cupid who strikes people with his arrow who then fall in love has become so widespread and so embedded in popular culture that if you show anyone a picture of a heart with an arrow through it they will automatically recognize it as a symbol for love. It is one of the most well known symbolism examples.

6.      The Body and Blood of Christ. This is one of the most important symbols in any Christian religion.  It refers to the change that occurs in the Eucharist to the substance of the wheat bread and the grape wine which transforms into the substance of the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ. This symbol has been extracted directly from passages in  the Bible, and the act of transforming the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ is called transbutination.

7.      The Raven. In almost all cultures, the raven is the sign of death.  This symbol can probably be traced back to the characteristics of this bird. It is a scavenger, so it feeds mostly on dead animals, and that is where probably the first associations between ravens and death have appeared. Also the raven has intensely black feathers which also help with the association to the color of death. Not least of all, ravens have an extremely long lifespan, one of the longest in the natural world, which help maintain the illusion that they are immortal as death is. All of these attributes that the raven has in real life have made it a perfect symbol, for decades now, for death.

Symbols are a very important aspect of our lives and we are surrounded by symbolism examples wherever we look. Symbolism in art is probably the most important aspect of any masterpiece, because it is through symbols that artists manage to transmit whatever emotion they want to the viewer. The ability to recognize symbols is unique to human kind, and to some extent we can definitely argue that it is what makes us human.  

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