Life on Sale; Death is Free

How do you feel when your beloved is taken from you? How do you feel when your roof is taken from you? How do you feel when what belongs to you is taken from you? How do you feel when everything in this world is standing against you? And how do you feel when even your tears leave you; the sorrow and frustrations resides in you? Suicide, it is the easy way out for all the problems that’s killing you alive. When life seems hard to live, death seems easy to face. Today, suicide is very popular among the lower economic citizens who are facing threaten of sustaining life day by day. Every other day there is news of suicide or death due to poor economic condition.

 A 25 year old Ramita Chaudhary of Bara killed her two innocent children and committed suicide in 18^th March 2012. She was having hard time managing money for different household purposes and she even had a debt to be paid with her neighbors. She couldn’t even sum up Rs.130 for the children’s fund that was established by the women of village for the education of children. Therefore, she was suffering mentally due to such financial problems and the condition of family. At such moment, killing the children and committing suicide was much easier for her than to face all these problems. She strangled her 3 year old son Kundan and eight month old daughter Sugandha to death, and then hung herself. The heart of mother had to lose in front of cruelty of time and money. It was poverty that led her towards such wickedness.

Poverty has compelled many other families to suicide. In February 2011, Dal Bahadur Oli’s entire family committed suicide because of very obvious reason that is abject poverty. 27 year old daughter of Oli was suffering from epilepsy and the family didn’t have money for her treatment. Hence life became expensive for them and the death was the only thing that they can afford. On the same year, in month of July, Shibhati Chaudhary of Rautahat convinced her three children aged- 11, 9 and 5 to commit suicide with her by jumping into the Bagmati River. The mother survived but fortunately or unfortunately, all of the three children died. It was not mother who asked her children to commit suicide but it was poverty.

Not only suicides, there are also other various cases of death due to poverty. A 9 year old boy Samundra Pariyar is suffering from hydrocephalous (an increase of cerebrospinal fluid around the brain) which is can be cure only by operation otherwise the child can hardly live a year. Lot of money has been spent over his treatment and again two lakh is required for his operation.  His family is already under a huge debt and again his life asks for another 2 lakh for his survival. If only they can sum up Rs.2 lakh, the life of this child will be saved but who will help this family? Will the so-called lawmakers who was about to give 2 crore for son of Prachanda in order to climb Mt. Everest; provide 2 lakh for the survival of Samundra? The answers to these questions are silent. The conditions of people are not acknowledged by these lawmakers. Children are getting kidnapped then killed for the money; people are getting robbed that is again for the money. These crimes are the means of getting out of poverty that’s why the rates of crime are increasing alarmingly. Either by killing others or killing oneself, people tends to get rid of poverty. They obviously have no other way out when leaders turn their deaf ear and blind eye towards such scenario.

A mother has become a murderer of her own dear children, today. A child is dying because he cannot pay for his treatment. A mother lets her children jump into the river and let them die. People are killing each other for the survival. Why? A sole reason: Money. Rich people are murdered because they have lots of money while poor people are committing suicide or murdering others because they don’t have enough money for their survival. In every corner of this world people are dying if not physically then mentally, just because of this destitution. Hence, we can draw a conclusion that in today’s materialistic world, life is always on a sale but death is free.