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When actors Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma croon the "break-up song" in Bollywood
flick 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil', he helpfully advises her to update her social media
status from "baasi relationship ka label" (in a relationship) to "available" and
get on with her life.
If only it were so easy to handle a heartbreak. In June this year, when Hani Aswani
of Ulhasnagar, a Mumbai suburb, broke up with his girlfriend of six years, he
decided to hang himself. And, to drive home the message, the 26-year-old live-
streamed his last moments to his ex on a video call.
Mumbai student Arjun Bharadwaj, too, needed an audience, it seems.
In April this year, the depressed 24-year-old checked into a hotel and posted alive
tutorial on suicide. Then, he took a swig of his drink, puffed a cigarette and with
a vacant stare into the camera, spoke his last words, "see you on the other side",
before jumping off the window on the 19th floor.
In April, a 32-year-old man from Sonepat hanged himself and live-streamed the
episode on Facebook. Evidently, a generation hooked to social media every waking
minute is unable to let go even in death.
David D Luxton, co-author of a 2012 US study, Social Media and Suicide: A Public
Health Perspective, says one reason for this public display of the final moments
could be a way to "get back" at those who they feel have bullied or caused them
hurt in some way.