An Indian boy committed suicide after losing money by Betting in IPL

[virasog]

Recently an Indian young boy committed suicide as he lost enough money by betting in IPL. He lost all of his money then borrowed money from his friends and bet with it in a hope of win back something. But he lost everything and took the step finally.

He had taken this extreme step as he was involved in the cricket (IPL) betting due to which he faced financial loss and could not bear the pressure. When the other roommates went for work, Sonu had committed suicide in the morning.

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This is nothing new, we know a lot of gambler committed suicide earlier after losing large amount in gambling. I have found another news reletaed to this IPL's Dark Side: A Rise in Suicide Cases Has Greeted the Return of Live Cricket on TV

People shouldn't bet with the money what they can't afford to loss. Borrowing money for betting is worst decision ever. Every gambler know these things but many of them still do it. Does this kind of news make you worried? Share your thought about this.

This is one incident which is being reported. I am sure there will be many more cases where people might have committed  suicide or have become very much hopeless on losing bets. People in most of the asian countries try to change their fate by participating in betting but mostly end up losing their valuables and lives.

[UmerIdrees]

I think it is the reason why mental health in gambling is really a matter because there are persons that can considered as suicidal whenever they lose money in gambling. This is not the first time that I heard this some kind of news because in the past there are many people who committed suicide just because they lose money in gambling. I'm so sad to read the news about a boy committed suicide just because he lose bet in IPL . Our lives are more important than money and for sure that he cannot handle the stress and the frustration that made him to do a suicide.

This is really sad to know. We never know how much needy he might be that he took loan to make the bet and then loses his life. Obviously he would not have money to pay back the loan and there could be possibilities that he may have other loans to pay also.

This is the moral responsibility of the rich people of our society to take care of the financial issues of the poors who are living hand to mouth so that people are not forced to take such extreme steps.

[plr]

This is one incident which is being reported. I am sure there will be many more cases where people might have committed  suicide or have become very much hopeless on losing bets. People in most of the asian countries try to change their fate by participating in betting but mostly end up losing their valuables and lives.

People are gambling at a very young age because they do not have proper guidance and second they see it as a way to escape poverty, they won big amount of money when they are starting out and they want to push their luck and they lured to it, until they cannot escape anymore and they want to chase their losses and hit the jackpot, which will never come.

[AicecreaME]

There's a story behind to that little boy's tragedy. I bet he stole that money from his parents, and hoping to win and will return the money once it happened, but what occurred was the other way around. Therefore he borrowed money from his friends but sadly same thing happened. Well this is just my hunch about this news.

Sometimes family background is the main reason of most suicides that is happening all around the globe. It's either the kid is trying to be a rebel or trying to take his parents attention towards him if he'll do something crazy, which is playing gambling. Suddenly cliff hangers appeared and the kid's life seems too cloudy for himself so he ended it up to eradicate his sufferings.

[rodskee]

21 years old is enough to handle His decision so why need the government threaten to close or go against the Gambling Online?
this man has his own mind and own Life never blame the gambling community because of what he does.
If there is someone to blame for this suicide is His family because other than everything they are the one who must always check and update their Son.
and so the addiction wont come to his end as bad like that.

[VivGaming]

I think it is the reason why mental health in gambling is really a matter because there are persons that can considered as suicidal whenever they lose money in gambling. This is not the first time that I heard this some kind of news because in the past there are many people who committed suicide just because they lose money in gambling. I'm so sad to read the news about a boy committed suicide just because he lose bet in IPL . Our lives are more important than money and for sure that he cannot handle the stress and the frustration that made him to do a suicide.

This is really sad to know. We never know how much needy he might be that he took loan to make the bet and then loses his life. Obviously he would not have money to pay back the loan and there could be possibilities that he may have other loans to pay also.

This is the moral responsibility of the rich people of our society to take care of the financial issues of the poors who are living hand to mouth so that people are not forced to take such extreme steps.

I am also feeling really sad about this all but this is happening in devleoping counties very usually and in developed countries also because gambling is really worst thing for our society but now its emerged very badly and we have nothing alternative for this so just need to give some education to kids about this all and keep eye on their activities.
This is really good that rich peoples take some responsibility but in gambling its never been good because its really addiction and its killing us very badly without recoverable doze.

[Debonaire217]

That is why before we take part in any gambling activity, we should have a conditioned mind first, a mind that is strong enough to handle big losses and a mind that is disciplined enough to accept that not every day we are lucky. I could imagine the Indian boy might be already problematic and he relies all his hope on gambling.

This could be prevented if, in the first place, we know the risk and potential of gambling. In short, we understand it. If not, we should make sure that there will be someone for us to remind us that we are already exceeding limitations. Remember, people are getting bankrupted in gambling, could not afford to pay depth and the main reason is that, they could not properly assess and budget their funds.

[FlightyPouch]

21 years old is enough to handle His decision so why need the government threaten to close or go against the Gambling Online?
this man has his own mind and own Life never blame the gambling community because of what he does.
If there is someone to blame for this suicide is His family because other than everything they are the one who must always check and update their Son.
and so the addiction wont come to his end as bad like that.

As far as I know, he is 19, and even though he is at that legal age, I think he is still young to make those decisions, and the fact that it led here, that he committed suicide means he can't still take responsibility for his decision, that he can't still take the consequences for that decision he made. That is important as a gambler.

[Vishnu.Reang]

I have answered about it to few people before. And I know there is difference between age 19 and 21. Few guys also replied here that his parents should realise the condition of this boy and counsel him. Actually he was a migrant worker and living away from his home.

Usually the only treatment for gambling addiction is counseling. But the problem in India is that all forms of gambling are banned and anyone caught gambling may face criminal prosecution (although it is rarely implemented). The ban on gambling has pushed the industry underground, in to the hands of the mafia. Identifying the gamblers becomes extremely risky as a result of this. And this makes providing counseling to addicts almost impossible.

[Yamifoud]

21 years old is enough to handle His decision so why need the government threaten to close or go against the Gambling Online?
this man has his own mind and own Life never blame the gambling community because of what he does.
If there is someone to blame for this suicide is His family because other than everything they are the one who must always check and update their Son.
and so the addiction wont come to his end as bad like that.

As far as I know, he is 19, and even though he is at that legal age, I think he is still young to make those decisions, and the fact that it led here, that he committed suicide means he can't still take responsibility for his decision, that he can't still take the consequences for that decision he made. That is important as a gambler.

What a sad end of his life for no reason. 19 years old is old enough to make a decision but there is one reason I suspected him why he commits suicide and it is because of the debts that he can't able to pay. I heard the story and he also ends his life.
Quite to say that there are some people who'll think bad for themselves, in fact, there is another way or solution without harming ourselves.
This might caught the attention of the parents especially when they know that one of their family members involve in gambling. They'll have to take action immediately before addiction will happen and able to commit debts.

[samputin]

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People shouldn't bet with the money what they can't afford to loss. Borrowing money for betting is worst decision ever. Every gambler know these things but many of them still do it. Does this kind of news make you worried? Share your thought about this.

Honestly, it does affect me and make me worried in a way. You're right, this is not new but everytime I hear news like this, I just feel sad. Apart from the fact that people should just gamble with money the can afford to lose, people should also bear in mind that losing is not the end and taking his life because of it is not justifiable either.

I'm not in his shoes, I know. But for others who think that suicide is the solution for their money problems, it's not. Think twice before committing such act. There are other ways of earning or paying a debt. Easier said that done, but possible.

[Becky666]

This is one incident which is being reported. I am sure there will be many more cases where people might have committed  suicide or have become very much hopeless on losing bets. People in most of the asian countries try to change their fate by participating in betting but mostly end up losing their valuables and lives.

People are gambling at a very young age because they do not have proper guidance and second they see it as a way to escape poverty, they won big amount of money when they are starting out and they want to push their luck and they lured to it, until they cannot escape anymore and they want to chase their losses and hit the jackpot, which will never come.

Those gamblers who think to escape poverty is though gambling should be tested for possible critical health issue, i mean; if anyone with the right sense think about this. Most of this happenings are attributed to gamblers greed, this mostly is associated with gamblers except some very few ones with self control. When greed step into a gamblers life, then forget their thinking as they will be thinking outside the box of good reasoning.

[bryant.coleman]

As far as I know, he is 19, and even though he is at that legal age, I think he is still young to make those decisions, and the fact that it led here, that he committed suicide means he can't still take responsibility for his decision, that he can't still take the consequences for that decision he made. That is important as a gambler.

Your statement is factually inaccurate. There is no legal age for gambling in India, because gambling itself is illegal there. It doesn't matter whether you are 15 years or 35 years. Apart from one state, gambling is banned across India. None of the online gambling sites are based in India and they are mostly operating from the Caribbean nations or other small territories. So it will be very difficult for the authorities to take any legal action against them.

[ethereumhunter]

21 years old is enough to handle His decision so why need the government threaten to close or go against the Gambling Online?
this man has his own mind and own Life never blame the gambling community because of what he does.
If there is someone to blame for this suicide is His family because other than everything they are the one who must always check and update their Son.
and so the addiction wont come to his end as bad like that.

Even if he is 21 years old, it doesn't mean that he can handle his decision like that. Playing gambling can tempt people to continue the next rounds without stopping, no matter if that is an adult or young person because gambling doesn't care about that. If that person is really desperate about what he got in gambling, he can suicide because he can not found a way out to solve his problem. In the end, he will suicide like what we read. It is a serious matter that every people who are playing gambling faces, and we must know how to avoid that, especially if we are addicting a person to gambling.

[plvbob0070]

Really sad, RIP to this young boy only 19 year old and now engage heavily in gambling he should go to school at his young age and not doing gambling and the worst is the money is from his friends thats why he decided to end his life out of pressure and fear he might face if he tell it to his friends but after-all its only a money he can earn it in due time and can pay his friends not committing suicide.  

Indeed, he's still young that he can't manage his emotion being in that situation wherein he should not be in the first place. It's a lesson that we should not chase our losses because the more we keep chasing it, the more we get dragged to it. Also, ending your life won't solve the problem, it will just add and give more burden to the people around you.

His situation was too heavy for him to handle, and it's just sad to think that he could have enjoyed his life since he's still young, if he did not get so addicted to gambling at this age.

One of the cons when you do let yourself do fall into the verge of addiction where you cant able to think that well on how things should go but instead you do decide to end up your

life for you to solve out everything which its just a really bad decision to make and its true that you might able to resolve your problem but to think that all of your loved ones left

will really be having a problem not only on emotional aspect but also into financial yet burial does cost expense unless if you do belong to a wealthy family then it wont matter
but if not then that would be an another problem created.

This is why we should really be careful on dealing with gambling yet it can mess out someones life.

He was too young to experience that situation and the burden of being in debt with his friend that he knew he can't pay. But he did not actually solve his problem, he just tried to escape it by ending his life, now, his family has to carry the problem.

Excessive gambling can give such a lot of problems but ending our life will never be the solution to it. As a gambler, you choose to gamble so you should be responsible for it. But we can't undo what happened, this will just serve as a lesson to us.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Suicide is not a correct way for anything in our life most of the time we are getting sad only more than happiness pictures life is always about to cross some failures I think we need to made the conference for the future this is the only option available when lossing the money.

[ice098]

He was too young to experience that situation and the burden of being in debt with his friend that he knew he can't pay. But he did not actually solve his problem, he just tried to escape it by ending his life, now, his family has to carry the problem.

Excessive gambling can give such a lot of problems but ending our life will never be the solution to it. As a gambler, you choose to gamble so you should be responsible for it. But we can't undo what happened, this will just serve as a lesson to us.

Yes he is, that is the worst thing that can be happen anyone of us, if we are being not ready with our emotion icne we encounter such losses. We should learn to accept failures, losses and defeats for us to grown and become wiser. I hope there will be someone who advises him and comfort him when he felt that emotion. he can do more even he lost money. So as a player keep in mind mate that being emotional in gambling can really affects us.

[carlfebz2]

He was too young to experience that situation and the burden of being in debt with his friend that he knew he can't pay. But he did not actually solve his problem, he just tried to escape it by ending his life, now, his family has to carry the problem.

Excessive gambling can give such a lot of problems but ending our life will never be the solution to it. As a gambler, you choose to gamble so you should be responsible for it. But we can't undo what happened, this will just serve as a lesson to us.

Yes he is, that is the worst thing that can be happen anyone of us, if we are being not ready with our emotion icne we encounter such losses. We should learn to accept failures, losses and defeats for us to grown and become wiser. I hope there will be someone who advises him and comfort him when he felt that emotion. he can do more even he lost money. So as a player keep in mind mate that being emotional in gambling can really affects us.

Majority of people who are engage with gambling they are that kind of solo ones which they dont really much attached to other people on what are the things that they've been doing.

and when unfortunate events do happen then they do tend to solo it and that what makes more stressful which would really create that emotion in you on where you do think into some things

like committing suicide specially if you do know that you are playing and lost a loaned or borrowed money then that would amplify even more on what you felt on that time.
In result? high chances that you would really end up on this situation unless if you are really well on handling up your emotion then you wouldnt really care.

[shield132]

Some people commit suicide because of gambling, some - because of bank loans, because of losing loved ones, broken relationships, because of study in school (yeah, I know cases when child committed suicide because he didn't want to study and was getting bad marks at school). There are still so many different reasons.

This fact is very bad but it doesn't mean that gambling kills. No, our problem is that we blame others for our actions while the root of the problem lies in us. You kill yourself because you created the problem, you gambled the money that you couldn't afford, you took the loan that you couldn't afford to pay back...
That fact is sad, hope casinos will seriously support responsible gambling campaign, I think this should be like a rule for everyone to enlighten our people around gambling and it's pros and cons.

[blockman]

What a tragic incident. He's still a boy for his age of 19 and that's why he thought that doing things such as borrowing money for recovery with his losses is the right thing to do. Things like this are unstoppable but I hope that the new gamblers are responsible enough to read terrible incidents like this so that they can have an idea what they should do when they are betting all of their money. I wish that it won't be followed by another news like this.