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sociological factors that motivate suicide, Suicide warning sings, Suicide rate in the
world and in Sri LankaMeasures to prevent Suicide.

2. Origin of Suicide

Suicide is a global problem. This began to develop as a result of simple society
gradually moving to a more complex society, with human life gradually getting busier
and more distant from the personal relationships of the past (for example having the

nuclear family instead of the extended family) The suicide occurred.These suicides
have taken place during the period of urbanization and industrialization, where most
people talk. This is largely due to the negative effects of urbanization and

industrialization. Urbanization is the movement of population from rural to urban
areas and the resulting increasing proportion of a population that resides in urban

rather than rural places. Industrialisation is the process whereby the economy shifted
from being based largely around agriculture to being based on industry and
manufacturing. Thus, as a result of the negative effects, A widening gap emerged

between the Bourgeoisie and the working class, The pollution of the environment
worsened, including urban environments where the majority of the population lived,
Water in canals, which people used, was contaminated, Cities were overcrowded,

Sanitary conditions were poor because they were in adapted to the massive rural
exodus etc. Urbanization and industrialization have brought about a lot of positive
effects and innovations for society.

As such, the lives of the rural people as well as the poverty-stricken individual have
had a tremendous impact. As a result, many people were forced to commit suicide,

most of them male. And no matter how advanced the world is, there are certain social
weaknesses that make man's stress unbearable. Accordingly, suicide is the only way
for a person to choose to relieve the stress. The first thing that comes to mind about

this suicide is Emil Durkheim. But this was a topic that was debated in the Greek
period before him. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle also commented on this, which was
philosophical and highly complex.Plato, in his PHAEDO book, agrees with Socrates's

view that "suicide is a false act" on the grounds that "the place which God has

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