Social Marketing is made to create awareness about the Suicide Prevention. Suicide prevention camp is driven targeting everyone for awareness.

1. Suryakumar T
VIT BS
Social Marketing

2. INTRODUCTION
• Suicide is a self impose death
with the intent to die.
• "act of taking one's own life".
• Suicide prevention camp is
driven targeting everyone for
awareness.
• Objective of the campaign is to
intervene people who are
showing the sign of suicide.

3. • Assisted suicide is when one
individual helps another bring
about their own death indirectly
via providing either advice or the
means to the end.
• This is in contrast to euthanasia,
where another person takes a
more active role in bringing about
a person's death.
• Happens officially over
Netherland, Belgium,
Switzerland. While on other
places it is illegal.

4. REASONS OF SUICIDE
• Poverty and Inflation
• Unemployment / Financial
Insecurity
• Lack of education
• Frustration
• Depression
• Uncertainty
• Lack of parental support.
• Relationship Problem

5. WAYS ADOPTED FOR SUICIDE
• Suicide bombings
• Poisoning
• Hanging
• Firearms
• Drowning
• Self-Immolation
• Jumping
• Use of medicines (in
minority).
• Ingestion of insecticides.

6. ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Suicide can be decreased by:
• Educating people
• Notify people who overcome
failures
– Joseph Conrad (Author of Book:
Heart of Darkness and filmed
as Apocalypse Now)
• Don’t report descriptions of
suicide methods.
• Avoid repetition and the word
“suicide” in news.
• Avoid dramatic visuals.
• Take particular care when
reporting celebrity suicides.
– Robin Williams (Hollywood
actor)

7. CONTROLLING SUICIDE
• Suicide prevention programs
should be integrated.
• Suicide prevention telephone
hotlines.
• Initiating school based
interventions.
• Suicide prevention interventions
should be pre-emptive rather
than reactive.
• Media can educate public about
suicide prevention.
• Suicide stories can inform readers
about symptoms, warnings and
treatments for suicide.

9. • Youth Suicide prevention
•Yellow Ribbon
• LIFE
• HOPE
• Native Cry
Initiative: VIDIYAL

12. Suicide
is a
PERMANENT solution
for a
TEMPORARY problem
AVOID IT..!