SUICIDE IS NOT AN OPTION; I’VE MADE IT THIS FAR
Need I say that on several occasions I have contemplated suicide? Well, I have. When I first failed Mathematics in my West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), when I thought I could never make it to the university because of financial issues and on several other very tough times in my life. Fortunately for me, I was able to psyche myself out of committing suicide. But many people have fallen victim to it (suicide). The last reported case of suicide in Ghana was on Friday September 6, 2019. It was a third year medical student of the University of Ghana who had allegedly taken his own life for failing an exams. Several of such cases have happened before but what critical attention has been given to this increasing inclination to commit suicide among the youth? Most often the issue is reported, condolences are expressed both in person and on social media and then it ends there. But how does that solve the problem? While section 57 of the Criminal and Other Off