Man Live-Streams Suicide On Facebook, Asks Family To Post Photos Of Corpse

Upset over his girlfriend’s engagement with another man, a 22-year-old killed himself and live-streamed the act on Facebook. The incident took place in Agra, a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

According to local reports, the man, identified as Shyam Sikarwar, had informed his friends and family about his decision to kill himself. On Saturday, he live-streamed his suicide from a temple during which he asked police not to take action against anyone. Sikarwar also asked his family members to post a few photos of his dead body on his Facebook page. Following this, his body was found hanging from inside the temple premises.

Officials found a four-page suicide note, in which he apologized to his near and dead ones for taking the drastic step.

"I miss her and cannot live without her. I cannot bear the fact that she is getting married to someone else. The stress of losing her has affected me so much that I lost my job," he wrote in the suicide note. He also asked his family members to donate his organs.

A police officer said, "The victim's body was found hanging inside the temple premises by residents. During the probe, we found out that the victim was unemployed and depressed because the girl he was in love with was getting married to someone else. We have conducted the autopsy and handed over his body to his family."

Sikarwar’s Facebook account was deactivated by his family members.

In a similar incident in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu last month, a woman killed herself and filmed her suicide after being scolded by her husband for spending too much time on TikTok, a video-sharing mobile application. Anitha started spending too much time on the app after she was introduced to it by a friend. Her family informed her husband, who lives in Singapore, about her addiction to the app after which he confronted her. He then yelled at her after she refused to delete the app. Unable to take the scolding, the woman, a mother-of-two, killed herself and recorded the act on the app.

If you have thoughts of suicide, confidential help is available for free at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call 1-800-273-8255. The line is available 24 hours, every day.