In the blockbuster film Sholay, an illiterate villager asks another what is suicide. The reply was : when the Angrez (Englishman) dies it's called suicide.
Javed Akhtar's one-liner joke apart, suicide takes the toll of nearly 2 lakh Indians every year on an average. In 2010 alone, nearly 187,000 suicides took place, if the report published in The Lancet in June 2012 is to be believed.
Actually the number of those who attempt suicide is almost ten times the number of those who actually gatecrash into the heavenly abode.
Out of the half a million people who commit suicide across the world every year, nearly 20 per cent, that's one in a five, are Indian.
The main cause behind suicide is depression, which is caused by socio-economic and health factors like AIDS, cancer and diabetes.
Here are 7 intriguing facts about suicide: