Suicide: leading cause of death among women in Nepal.

An epidemiologic review of suicide and its prevention was done in Canada in the year 1989. The risk factors found were agemen aged 70 years or above, women aged 65 to 69 and men aged 20 to 24, mental illness, previous suicidal attempt, life-threatening illness, native people, people with a family history of suicide and prisoners in the descending order.3 Unlike the findings in Canada, suicidal death in Nepal is more common among women of reproductive age group.4 It is in fact the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age in Nepal probably due to domestic violence from their husband and in laws as over eighty percent of them report experiencing domestic violence.5