There are more failure stories than successful ones and those who cannot cope with failure, give up on their lives. Some of them become icons and some lose themselves within the ghosts of failure and fade-outs. People associated with this field are celebrities.

Showbiz is the field of glamour and stardom. After all, the mind of a human being is too complex to be boxed into classifications. The individual loses concern for the community he belongs to.Īn altruistic suicide results from an excessive sense of duty towards the community.Īn anomic suicide occurs when the society fails to control and regulate the behaviour of individuals.īut can suicide be placed in water-tight compartments? Not really because it can easily be a combination of all three factors overlapping or having happened in different phases of the suicidal person’s psyche. His classification is based on the disturbed relationship between society and the individual.ĭurkheim divided suicide into three classes - egoistic, altruistic and anomic.Īn egoistic suicide happens when abnormal individualism weakens society's control over the individual and reduces the person's immunity against 'collective suicidal inclination'. Born in eastern France in 1858, he was the first social scientist to subject specific phenomena of everyday life to close sociological study and to formulate a methodology. The best-known classification of suicide appeared in Emile Durkheim's Suicide, written in 1897. This piece tries to probe into why celebrities who lead a high-profile life held in the constant light of public space and the media over the years suffer from depression and choose to die. On the other hand, it also creates space for discussing what pushes young celebrities to choose death over life. The suicide of the rising actor-star Sushant Singh Rajput has already raised so many questions that it makes us begin to feel that a young man’s choice to die has been turned into a media circus.

Celebrities that committed suicide