Posted on 28 Jan 2010
2 undergrads found dead in 2 weeks: Too much pressure on S'pore youth?
After reading about the suicides of two NTU undergraduates, found within two weeks of each other, a STOMPer wonders if there are underlying issues causing young people to resort to taking their own lives.
Perhaps young people are experiencing more and more pressure these days from all factors in their lives, suggests the STOMPer.
Although the cases are not related to each other, their close proximity is a warning sign that young Singaporeans are experiencing more stress and also increasingly finding it hard to deal with.
Such pressures may not only come from academia, says the sender.
According to the Straits Times on January 27, one of the women was said to be a good student while the other had just started her course in civil engineering.
Perhaps the younger generation has too much on their plate, causing them to seek death as a way out of their problems.
Hoping something can be done to ease the load on their backs, the STOMPer says:
The STOMPer says:
“Yesterday’s newspapers reported the recent suicides of two NTU girls.
“Though the incidents are separate, it makes me wonder why the incidents happened only two weeks apart and if young people are resorting to suicide more often these days.
“They were both young, well-educated and probably had bright futures ahead of them. One of them was even scoring consistent good grades.
“What could make them so depressed that they would give all that up and take their own lives?
“Are Singaporeans too stressed out? Is it really tough for local university students to maintain a healthy outlook on life?
“Or were these girls troubled by relationship problems and felt they had no way out?
“Although we’ll never know why they committed suicide, I do hope that we can re-evaluate the quality of life young people are experiencing.
“Hopefully something can be done to help young people overcome tough times so that they don’t easily resort to suicide as a solution.”
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Keywords: suicide , depression , stress , university
2 undergrads found dead in 2 weeks: Too much pressure on S'pore youth?
After reading about the suicides of two NTU undergraduates, found within two weeks of each other, a STOMPer wonders if there are underlying issues causing young people to resort to taking their own lives.
Perhaps young people are experiencing more and more pressure these days from all factors in their lives, suggests the STOMPer.
Although the cases are not related to each other, their close proximity is a warning sign that young Singaporeans are experiencing more stress and also increasingly finding it hard to deal with.
Such pressures may not only come from academia, says the sender.
According to the Straits Times on January 27, one of the women was said to be a good student while the other had just started her course in civil engineering.
Perhaps the younger generation has too much on their plate, causing them to seek death as a way out of their problems.
Hoping something can be done to ease the load on their backs, the STOMPer says:
The STOMPer says:
“Yesterday’s newspapers reported the recent suicides of two NTU girls.
“Though the incidents are separate, it makes me wonder why the incidents happened only two weeks apart and if young people are resorting to suicide more often these days.
“They were both young, well-educated and probably had bright futures ahead of them. One of them was even scoring consistent good grades.
“What could make them so depressed that they would give all that up and take their own lives?
“Are Singaporeans too stressed out? Is it really tough for local university students to maintain a healthy outlook on life?
“Or were these girls troubled by relationship problems and felt they had no way out?
“Although we’ll never know why they committed suicide, I do hope that we can re-evaluate the quality of life young people are experiencing.
“Hopefully something can be done to help young people overcome tough times so that they don’t easily resort to suicide as a solution.”
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Keywords: suicide , depression , stress , university
