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

[Janation]

Even if i never knew this Indian boy my heart aches for his family and friends who are hurting because of his choice to take his own life.  To commit suicide is never the right thing to do and its so sad that nobody was able to help him.   

The sad thing is that the generation of younger age now is so fragile.

They are spoiled by us the previous generation because of how we are treated in the past and we want that to change, we never want that to happen to our children because we know how it hurts. Now, they are kind of romanticizing this kind of way to end their life instead of facing that weakness or mistakes head on that would make them stronger. It could also help other people of their age as they can be the model for them. Committing suicide is not a good thing.

[JohnBitCo]

Even if i never knew this Indian boy my heart aches for his family and friends who are hurting because of his choice to take his own life.  To commit suicide is never the right thing to do and its so sad that nobody was able to help him.   

A lot of things were needed to look as why this sad incident happened ?  Not everyone is able to commit suicide even in case of big losses. There must be some physiological  issues with him too and might be some family tensions which only he or his near & dear ones know about it.
A life of a person is more important than any amount of money being lost.

[TitanGEL]

I never thought that losing money through betting can lead into this kind of incident, I hope that his family already accepted to what happen to that boy who committed suicide. I cannot judge him to what he did because I never know what he feels and what he experienced after to lose the money that he just borrowed. This incident should be become the trigger for some government to allocate more funds and focus on suicide awareness because it can prevent person especially those gamblers who have suicidal behavior. Depression is real and people can overcome it through proper guidance and education. I hope that this kind of situation will never happen again.

[blckhawk]

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.

It is easy to be said than to be done. It is just like you were telling yourself that you wouldn't fall for it but you still playing. Borrowing money for you to use in gambling was the worst idea, it could even make the situation worse, in a way this could stack up your debt. They still choose to do it knowing what consequences will be because they can't control themselves or should I say they got already addicted to it. That is why we need someone besides us who are willing to help us to manage our addiction. Anyway, I felt bad for the kid.

[ethereumhunter]

Even if i never knew this Indian boy my heart aches for his family and friends who are hurting because of his choice to take his own life.  To commit suicide is never the right thing to do and its so sad that nobody was able to help him.   

The sad thing is that the generation of younger age now is so fragile.

We hope it is a lesson for the other young generation in all countries, not doing the same thing as what he did. Borrowing money for just playing gambling is too risky, especially if we are losing the money and can not repay that loan. In the end, many of the young generations will end or commit suicide when they can not solve the problem. It is not just for the young generation, but it is also a job for the parents to watch their kids and guard them not to make a mistake like that.

[Pamadar]

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.

It is easy to be said than to be done. It is just like you were telling yourself that you wouldn't fall for it but you still playing. Borrowing money for you to use in gambling was the worst idea, it could even make the situation worse, in a way this could stack up your debt. They still choose to do it knowing what consequences will be because they can't control themselves or should I say they got already addicted to it. That is why we need someone besides us who are willing to help us to manage our addiction. Anyway, I felt bad for the kid.

No doubt about that, there are many gamblers who suffered the same thing.

Thinking that they can always recover if ever they've lose their money, taking a loan as another alternatives to get funds
and continue their gambling activities, it's really hard to resist once you are already engaged and your addiction is on it's pick.
You really need attentions and help as it will go further to the point that you will take everything at risk.

[peter0425]

Even if i never knew this Indian boy my heart aches for his family and friends who are hurting because of his choice to take his own life.  To commit suicide is never the right thing to do and its so sad that nobody was able to help him.   

The sad thing is that the generation of younger age now is so fragile.

We hope it is a lesson for the other young generation in all countries, not doing the same thing as what he did. Borrowing money for just playing gambling is too risky, especially if we are losing the money and can not repay that loan. In the end, many of the young generations will end or commit suicide when they can not solve the problem. It is not just for the young generation, but it is also a job for the parents to watch their kids and guard them not to make a mistake like that.

it is not only for Younger gambler but instead for all gamblers out there that has been dealing with gambling without precaution and Self control.
because even Older gambler can be addicted aand do same thing like what this young boy does.
Let us make sure that before we gamble is we must have control in ourselves .

[FlightyPouch]

...Let us make sure that before we gamble is we must have control in ourselves .

I think not just before gambling but before we make these rash decisions that in the end, we will not be able to face the consequences that might happen. Even if he can control himself while he gambles, he can't control himself from borrowing money to gamble. He did not control himself from killing himself, we really need control to ourselves.

[jademaxsuy]

Lesson learn that never to get into deep gambling addiction. This will be the possible result, frustration effect to a gambler if they can't get the desired results in betting. As we all know that only few are lucky in betting especially in casino and mostly in the long run gambler tend to lose and that is a fact. So, if ever you get relied to get a good result from it then the result will be frustration and that can lead suicide. Anyway, India country is # 1 leading of people getting into suicide that base on the movie the 3 Idiots after the main character Rancho had stated it as I remember.

[Saint-loup]

How old is the young victim? Is he 18+
However, it had been warned several times by betting agencies to stop teenagers in Betting system, he is still a young teenager below 18 I think, so it hard to resist the pressure that comes after the loss adding to the ones he is owing, that's while is advisable to stop borrowing money to bet. These cases are meant to happen and it can't be stopped at any given point in time. Similar cases
had happened in my country uncountable times so it hard to stop this except for the fact that you keep advising younger ones to avoid betting at their tender age.

It's written in the title of the link : he was 19 year old
If you can't reach the page because the website isn't available from your country like for me, you still can read the page in text mode through the cache of google http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://cricket.yahoo.net/news/hyderabad-19-old-dies-suicide-025113659&strip=1

He is not 19 years old but 21 years old.

https://thewire.in/sport/ipl-betting-suicide-cricket

In the second week of October, Lucknow Police recovered the dead body of Raju Yadav (21) in an abandoned shed in Gomti Nagar Extension in Lucknow. Yadav, who worked as a pump operator, had run up debts to cover for losses he suffered due to betting on matches of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

At the right age already but his mind is not so matured already in handing pressure so he took his life instead of facing his problems.

But are you sure we are talking about the same guy?
Op said he was 19, moreover the guy in the Yahoo cricket link is called "Sonu Kumar Yadav" and not Raju Yadav... It sounds a little bit weird

[Swordsoffreedom]

It is a really shocking and heart touching news. It is he only reason why i hate those people who are addicted on something and greedy. Because this type of people do everything for money or those things he is addicted to. I'mI always tell my friends to gamble within a certain limits. You can spend some of your daily pocket money on it. This will not hurt your family. we should never gambling by borrowing money Or beyond our capacity. And the last thing is ,you must be a man of strong morale. Because gambling is a game with luck. If you are lucky you will earn a lot of money, but if you are unlucky you will lose a lot of money. If your morale is not strong, you will break if you lose money. So you always have to keep your morale strong. And be prepared to lose money.

Know what?before telling people not to gamble much better tell them this before we teach them how to gamble,because this is part of being responsible gambling right?

The problem here is we  tend to teach others how to gamble but we are not caring for what they will become.
I know that it is not our responsible but we must understand also that if we don't do such thing then we will letting them to be addicted.

Gambling is not bad. I know a lot of people who gamble just for fun. They have a lot of money, yet they gamble within a certain amount of money. They go to the casino daily. But the purpose of going to the casino is to hang out with friends and gamble together. They are not addicted to gambling. Gambling is not harmful for them. If someone is addicted to gambling, he is responsible for it. He has no control over himself.  The person who taught him to gamble is not responsible for it.

[nikola22]

another example of making bets with all the money (and also using borrowed money) with sad final. the first rule of gambler - bet with money you can afford to lose. borrowing for bets is a bad mistake.

[BlackFor3st]

This is the problem to most of the gamblers out there who are very greedy in multiplying their money without thinking the consequences if they lost their bet.
Being greedy will only cause you a problem and worst the same to what happen to this Indian young boy which can be avoided if he just know how to control his
bets or gambling habit.

We should always put a limitation to our gambling habit and gamble only your extra money or a money that you can afford to loss so you will not end up to this kind
of scenario.

[South Park]

The Idea of borrowing money just to gamble is a perfect example that this Boy is already addicted and has no where to run but to gamble

he will spend everything in His hand just to play,there is no fun in His activities as he always seek for wins and never be contented.

I did not mean that what he does is right but the way he spends living?suicide is His only salvation.
Hope He is now found peace if where he was now.

While there are many signs that point to gambling addiction one of the most telling is borrowing money to continue with your gambling, losing all your money should be a wake up call that something is wrong with you and your gambling activities but instead of reflecting about it people that are addicted only care about one thing and that is to fuel their addiction, however when this person was losing his own money he could keep his addiction hidden from everyone else but once he borrowed money everyone will find out about it unless he won, so most likely the pressure of being exposed is what caused this unfortunate incident.

[blockman]

Even if i never knew this Indian boy my heart aches for his family and friends who are hurting because of his choice to take his own life.  To commit suicide is never the right thing to do and its so sad that nobody was able to help him.   

It is a life's loss. Basically, we all have the same feeling even if we don't know the person. Even a friend of a friend, when unfortunate things comes like this we feel sad about that incident.
The boy probably went through a mental stress and thought that everyone would be mad at him if they ever found out what he has done.

[FlightyPouch]

...The boy probably went through a mental stress and thought that everyone would be mad at him if they ever found out what he has done.

This is the sad thing about this. People don't need to be hard on themselves when they made these selfish mistakes, that is why we have these consequences so we can learn from them, not run from them. I don't blame the teenager for this, I just hope that people should try to strengthen themselves especially in these kinds of situations.

[angrybirdy]

...The boy probably went through a mental stress and thought that everyone would be mad at him if they ever found out what he has done.

This is the sad thing about this. People don't need to be hard on themselves when they made these selfish mistakes, that is why we have these consequences so we can learn from them, not run from them. I don't blame the teenager for this, I just hope that people should try to strengthen themselves especially in these kinds of situations.

But the one who committed suicide is just a boy. He still doesn't know much about that, as he said, he probably thought that everyone will be mad at him or what. He borrowed money from his friend and try to take back his losses but lose all of it, in this case, a boy with a very young mind will probably face a mental stress and cannot think right.

[blockman]

...The boy probably went through a mental stress and thought that everyone would be mad at him if they ever found out what he has done.

This is the sad thing about this. People don't need to be hard on themselves when they made these selfish mistakes, that is why we have these consequences so we can learn from them, not run from them. I don't blame the teenager for this, I just hope that people should try to strengthen themselves especially in these kinds of situations.

But the one who committed suicide is just a boy. He still doesn't know much about that, as he said, he probably thought that everyone will be mad at him or what. He borrowed money from his friend and try to take back his losses but lose all of it, in this case, a boy with a very young mind will probably face a mental stress and cannot think right.

It is common for teenagers to have a weak understanding and don't have mature mindsets. Most of them think that it's the end of the world whenever they get in trouble that is still fixable.
But the boy, like what we're thinking, does have a mindset that ain't that strong which led him doing that. Also there is a tendency that his friend will get mad at him but will still spare him, he didn't thought of it but decided to go the wrong way.

[michellee]

But the one who committed suicide is just a boy. He still doesn't know much about that, as he said, he probably thought that everyone will be mad at him or what. He borrowed money from his friend and try to take back his losses but lose all of it, in this case, a boy with a very young mind will probably face a mental stress and cannot think right.

I don't know why people continue to call this 21-year old guy as a "boy". He was 21 years old, and not 12. If he can't make informed decisions at this stage of his life, then it's his fault. I feel sad about his loss, but he could have faced the situation courageously. The amount he owed was not that big. He could have easily paid back the amount in a matter of few months.

When he makes that mistake and he already 21-year old, that will be his mistake. I only think that he loses control of gambling, and make him desperate, and he borrows money from his friend. But suddenly, he loses all of the money in gambling, and he can not accept his losses because he can not repay that money.

We all feel sad to read that news, and we hope that young people will get the lesson, not to try to borrow money from other people just for playing gambling. It is better to stay away from gambling than to see you will lose much money because you can not control yourself.

[Poker Player]

The problem with this news is that it is used by people who want to ban gambling to try to show how disastrous it is, when the truth is that most people who gamble do so responsibly. It's like trying to show how bad alcohol is by telling the story of an alcoholic who ends up committing suicide or dying of liver cirrhosis.

Extreme cases have always existed and will continue to exist, but we should not make them the norm.