Amman – Compass

The writer Hussein Al-Rawashdeh emphasized that the suicide of some citizens is the harshest and most eloquent cry of “protest” that a person can hear in any society.

Al-Rawashdeh said, wondering: Why do these citizens commit suicide, and what are the reasons that motivate them to choose death and salvation from life? Is not the cry of suicide the harshest and most eloquent cry of “protest” that a person can hear in any society?

A crisis that needs to stop

Confirming what Al-Rawashdeh said, criminology expert and professor of sociology at Mutah University, Dr. Hussein Mahadin, said in his statements to:compassThat such practices may occur, and in new forms; Because people who want to remind themselves, whether fatally through suicide, or screaming, or through the models presented by some in violence, “are all indications that we have an internal crisis that needs a scientific pause.”

Mahadin added that what we see in terms of scientific accuracy are apparent symptoms of the problem, and it is deepening in its economic and value essence, and therefore the ways of expressing it differ between a frustrated person, another expatriate, and a third yearning to express that he is suffering.

He warned that the presence of one suicide case deserves to mobilize the community, because such strange behavior represents a primary nucleus, which is feared to turn into a chain reaction (infection), meaning that each new suicide case provokes others living in the same condition as the suicide, which makes them follow the path of the suicide, As an expression of their rejection of the rising frequency of religious weakness, the increase in economic pressures, and the melting of social standards.

Mahadin said: The suicide process poses a constant threat with the escalation witnessed in society, but the most dangerous is the absence or neglect of scientific studies by the government to analyze the motives that make citizens legitimate to commit suicide.

He considered this behavior a parallel translation of the state of rejection experienced by individuals, noting that “despite its sanctity, its perpetrators were the boldest in expressing it.”

The suicide incident of a female doctor at the University of Jordan Hospital provoked wide responses and sympathy among the members of Jordanian society, despite the insistence of the vast majority that a person must cling to faith and hope and face problems and challenges no matter how difficult they are, without neglecting the duty of the state and the responsible authorities to provide appropriate working conditions. And generous and provide help, support and psychological assistance to everyone who needs it.

In turn, the journalist Yasser Abu Hilala commented that the Jordanian society should take the issue of the suicide of the resident doctor at the University Hospital seriously, a hotline must be established to report those who are thinking of committing suicide, we lost a doctor Omar Al-Zohour (25 years) and the only one of her parents, after she suffered following the death of her mother and wrote publications Farewell on Facebook.

An atmosphere of sadness pervaded on social media over the incident, and the controversy ended with a statement issued by the family of the deceased calling on the media and social media to respect the period of grief the family is going through, respect their privacy and pray for the deceased for mercy.

65 suicides in the first half of 2022

The head of the National Center for Forensic Medicine, Dr. Raed Al-Momani, revealed that the total number of suicide cases in the Kingdom in the first half of the current year 2022 reached (65) cases.

And he indicated in an interview with Al-Rai that according to the suicide statistics for the first half of the current year of the Forensic Medicine Directorate, i.e. from the date (1/1 2022-30/6 2022), the rates of self-immolation (suicide) in the Kingdom were close to previous years, where The current year reached (65) cases, of which (45) were males and (20) were females, while last year for the same period reached (68) cases, of which (49) were males, and (19) were females.

Al-Momani indicated that most of the suicides this year were by hanging, and there were (35) cases of suicide by hanging, (10) cases of fall, (7) cases of bullets, and (4) cases of poisoning. He took medications, (4) burns cases, two gas poisoning cases, and one case each for chemical inhalation, pesticide poisoning and drug dose.

With regard to the ages of suicide cases, he emphasized that they vary, but the youngest age recorded was for a male (13) years, and the oldest age for a male was (83) years, while the age groups from his twenties and thirties were the largest percentage of these cases, where they recorded (36) ) a case of her, while under the age of (20) there were (9) cases, and the category of forties (12) cases, and the sixties and over (8) cases.

Suicide cases were distributed in several governorates of the Kingdom, according to Al-Momani, and they were (22) cases in the capital, Amman, (10) cases in Irbid, (7) cases in Jerash, (6) cases in Salt, and (4) cases in Aqaba, (4) cases in Karak, (4) cases in Zarqa, one case in Mafraq, one case in Madaba, two cases in forensic medicine, Prince Hussein bin Abdullah Hospital, and (4) cases in forensic medicine, Prince Faisal Hospital.

It is noteworthy that the government sought to criminalize and impose penalties on anyone who attempts suicide, while the National Center for Human Rights and specialists called on the government to abolish such penalties and to seek a comprehensive review to find radical solutions to the problems that Jordanian society and its members suffer from, which deepened after the crisis of the Corona pandemic.

(compass)