Girl Without a Funeral: Why Cases of Suicide Are Rising in Kashmir
News 18A month had gone by since she walked out of her home to the Jhelum bridge, looked back at her unassuming mother, smiled, climbed up the Sopore bridge railing and flung herself in the gushing waves of the Jhelum. When a rescue team reached, it was too late to save Seerat, but the irony is, they couldn’t even fish out her dead body despite ongoing operations for 11 straight days. Ultimately, after citing old examples of how dead bodies that fell in the same river from the same spot before were found 93 days and 7 months after they fell, and supplementary to some senior ageing locals citing ‘paranormal presence that devoured human bodies’ around the area, the government rescue team finally ceased operations. Ironically, Seerat’s mother never pleaded with anyone for financial help as much as she had to plead to all these ‘brothers’ to bring down her daughter’s pictures from their social media accounts. Mental health care experts believe that such patients must be exposed to professional behavioural therapy like coping skills, talking to friends, feeling ‘important’ by making them feel they can ‘contribute’ in some way, hobby development etc.
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