VietNamNet Bridge – Two suicide cases within one month in Hanoi have  alarmed people of problems in lifestyle and thoughts of young people nowadays. Experts have pointed out that students need to learn and well understand the value of life.

 
On January 4, Nguyen Thu T, a 10th grader of a grammar school in Hai Duong province, jumped from an upper floor of the school yard just because of problems in a love affair. On February 15, a female student of the Hanoi University also committed suicide by jumping down from the seventh floor. On March 1, Nguyen Thi H, a university student, took a lot of tablets used to treat gout disease to commit suicide. On March 7, Vu Thi H, a student of a junior college in Hanoi, committed suicide because of family problems. On the same day, a student of the Academy of Journalist and Communication suddenly jumped from the fourth floor of a building into the school yard.

 

The high number of the suicide cases recently has alarmed educators about the problems in lifestyle and pyschology of young people. The noteworthy thing is that the young people,who committed suicide were the well educated. They were university or junior college students, who were expecting good futures after they finished school.

 

According to Nguyen Huu Long, MA, Lecturer of the HCM City Pedagogical College, many of the students committed suicide because of the problems in love affairs, a problem that warrants special attention from society. The love of young people is always indulgently romantic and idealistic. However, regrettably, the romance does not always bring happiness. Sometimes it brings misery. As a result, many young people are shocked when their romantic affairs no longer make them happy and they commit suicide as the solution to forget about love.

 

Also according to Long, the pressures of a fast-paced modern life makes many people feel lonely, which can easily lead to stress. Young people have more demands in their life and they find it increasingly difficult to satisfy those demands.

 

With the fast-paced lifestyle people do not take time to look back on themselves so that they can adjust their feelings, thoughts or behaviors. When one’s family life undergoes challenges, if children do not have the chances to communicate with and confide in their parents, they feel lonely and hurt.

 

“These are big problems which are among the reasons young people have a negative perspective on life,” Long said.

 

When talking about the role of education in orienting thoughts and lifestyle of students, Associate Professor Dr Vo Minh Chi, Director of the Psychology Center under the Hanoi University of Education, said that university students do not have close links because schools are following the credit-based training mechanism. Every student has his own schedule and he only goes to school when he is learning hours, therefore, he does not have much time to communicate with classmates.

 

According to Chi, when children enter universities, the role of parents in educating children decreases, because it is a time when children to lead independent lives. Therefore, Chi thinks that at first, it is necessary to educate students about the value of the life and then teach them living skills. Students need to well understand the value of life, so that they can develop reasonable behaviors to address many predicaments in life.

 

As the classes’ structure is loosened nowadays, the youth union, student associations and classes need to organize more collective activities in order to connect members.

 

The Hanoi University of Education recently organized classes about the 12 life values put forward by the United Nations. The classes have helped students realize the values of themselves and the values of the life in order to create a better lifestyle.

 

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