First, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away.
“I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in a phone interview from her home in central Ghor province. “I chose the latter.”
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I found another article that gives a few numbers.
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two thirds are still two thirds - whether that’s 3 people out of 4 or 750.000 out of 1.000.000. And given that
I think the numbers are really worrying.
Especially if you consider that in the rest of the world the majority of successful suicides are from males. It takes a lot of disparity to bring it to those numbers.
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Dude, they’re saying it’s worrying if 3 out of every 4 people who commit suicide are women
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Do you think it’s going to be significantly less than in other places? What would be the reason for that?
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I agree that absolute numbers would be very helpful, but stating and sharing trends can definitely be helpful. Not being able to verify them is a problem though.