Despair over a breakup, financial insecurities, or looming ailments acts as the root cause for someone to ponder suicide. There are cases aplenty in Kerala that saw families considering suicides over financial doom. The numbers have only soared in recent times albeit the government and other organizations laboring hard with initiatives and motivations of different kinds to end it. In 2018 alone, 7870 people committed suicide in Kerala. Coming to 2021, the numbers skyrocketed to 9549. The suicide committed in Kerala is far higher in number than the national average. Meanwhile, Kerala also tops the list of people escaping death while committing suicide.

Connecting this, in the past week, Kerala witnessed the suicide of three and that too got a fair share of the spotlight in the media. ES Bijumon who committed suicide was the recipient of the president’s award for being a literacy prerak. For six months and a long, he was denied salary. It was through Bijumon’s mere income that a family of three survived. The government was blocking the salary for long citing hiccups in the paper works of the finance department. Literacy Prerak E S Bijumon, 49, a block-level nodal officer of the state literacy mission, was among the 1,714 literacy preraks in Kerala who have been denied the honorarium for the last six months due to the state government’s financial crisis. It has been 80 days of a sit-in protest and the government never batted an eye into the issue that resulted in the drastic fate of Bijumon.

The other case happened in Wayanad. A tiger was found dead near Harikumar's house premise. The forest department and the police called him for questioning. Just days after this, Hari Kumar was found hanging. His bereaved wife points to the grueling questioning session and the threats from the officers as the cause. Tigers entering the human habitat was much discussed and the people here lived alarmed 24/7. No such effective measures were introduced by the police or the forest department. So it comes natural for the localities to build traps to catch the beasts sauntering around the town. The cross-questioning of Hari Kumar was a condemning act and it showed the condescending attitude of the officers no less. Keralatowers among other states when it comes to suicide. Nobody cares about the list and the news fades from the public glare when another 'breaking' settles in. The trend has been going unhindered in Kerala with the government and the official not doing the needed diagnosing to end this death run.