On Dec. 15, a junior at Beijing Jiaotong University jumped to his death, the 12th suicide since December. The phenomenon of frequent suicide among college students has drawn great attention from the outside world, especially among college students, which has led to further discussion to find out the underlying causes. Recent college graduates say those who commit suicide are victims of the Communist party system.
The student, who jumped from a building at Beijing Jiaotong University, left a 1,400-word suicide note, according to the mainland’s Zhihu.com website. In his suicide note, he said that before he went to college, he believed that doing exercises was the only right way to get ahead, so he gave up other directions and did exercises to become his outstanding advantage. When he got to college, he listened to others and became “well-rounded”, giving up the advantage of doing problems. As a result of poor grades, no postgraduate recommendation qualification, feel lost life goal, had to go on the road of self-destruction.
The news of the student’s death caused a strong reaction on Zhihu.
“In the four years of college, we have been joking with our roommates: Jump off a building, sacrifice one to pay for five, so that we can all apply for postgraduate admission,” a senior student at his school wrote on his website. He really thought so when he died, when this kind of joke really become a reality, none of us can laugh out, leaving us only heavy… .”
A discussion of suicide among college students on Zhihu.
The brother also said that a familiar grade 18 student has not rested for a whole month. This year the internal volume is particularly serious, everyone is racking their brains to get A, take an examination of 90+, postgraduate recommendation. I have to admit, these are really important, but when compared to life, suddenly seem to pale.
One student said the school wouldn’t speak for him, and neither would the teacher. The gilded Backwave would not sympathise with him, and the toff would even find such a thing amusing. Most of us in the same situation continue to scroll after sighing the volume. Posterity of sorrow and do not learn also make posterity and answer mourning posterity. Besides, I talked with some classmates about this matter on the road today. They laughed it off and only cared about the matter of his roommate’s postgraduate enrollment after his death. The rest didn’t seem to have anything to do with everyone.
A college student in Shanghai said that he is not used to the anxiety caused by inner exams of people around him, and has become numb to the suicides of students from several excellent universities this semester. “But seeing this student’s suicide note today, I was deeply shocked in my mind. In my opinion, his suicide was not a suicide caused by anxiety, but a suicide caused by despair, a suicide made up with death. As he said, the soul is exhausted. Where is the current college student’s painful inner scroll going?”
Some students ask, “What kind of people are our schools training? Is it to give teachers, campus, textbooks and other nutrition, and then regardless of the students in the school like bacteria began to grow barbarously, until the growth to the beginning of the internal volume (each other, internal consumption of the state), insufficient resources, vicious competition?” “This kind of campus environment gives people a strong feeling of crazy alienation.”
Peking University the undergraduate students wu said in an interview with the epoch, China is now the economic situation is not good, many college students face great employment pressure, “graduation is unemployed”, so a lot of crowded broken head to one’s deceased father grind, take an examination of the male (civil servants), the competition is very fierce, and even went up to also do not have a good future, face the tutor’s spite, aiding the unfair competition, and so on.
This harsh reality is in stark contrast to the Communist Party’s “Wei Guang Zheng” propaganda and the test-oriented education they were brought up to believe that “if you do well in a good school, you can get ahead.” As a result, he says, some students go to extremes, feeling that life is meaningless and hopeless, and end up dead.
“The problem is particularly acute for ‘exam-makers’ (Internet catchphrase for’ high achievers’ who can only do questions and excel in exams) from towns and cities. They often come from poor families. They basically have no other skills except book knowledge and lack education in humanistic culture. They have been used to being praised and looked up to since childhood, and their ability to work under pressure is poor, so they cannot face all kinds of cruel realities.” “Said Wu.
“This may be because, as a good student, he was only exposed to the ideological system of the Communist Party of China, and what he called ‘all-round development advocated by liberals’ was also the quality-oriented education advocated by the Communist Party of China, so his understanding of liberal ideas was superficial.”
Wu further analyzed, “When he was disillusioned and could not find any weapon to resist, he blamed the capitalists, capitalists and counter-revolutionaries for his own sufferings and even the existing problems in the whole society. But he felt that he could not change the status quo, so he chose to fight to the death.”
Finally, he said: “These college students who commit suicide, they are all victims of the Communist party system.”
According to incomplete statistics, there were at least 57 suicides among college students on the mainland in 2020, including 12 since December, according to the website Zhihu.com.
On Dec. 03, a sophomore female student from Henan University of Finance, Economics and Law committed suicide by jumping off a building.
On December 3rd, a senior female student at the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan First Normal University hanged herself.
On December 04, a student at Nanjing University committed suicide by burning charcoal, resulting in severe burns, and was sent to the hospital. The subsequent situation is unknown.
On December 5, an undergraduate student at Northwestern Polytechnical University committed suicide by jumping off a building.
A freshman at the Construction Engineering College of Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology committed suicide by jumping off a building on Dec. 05.
A female student at Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology hanged herself on Dec. 7.
A student at the School of Computer science at Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology committed suicide by jumping off a building on Dec. 7.
On December 8, guangdong Pharmaceutical University health inspection major sophomore in Xinzhou river bank xinzhou village, Guangzhou University town missing, on December 16 confirmed that he had passed away.
On December 13, a student at Anhui Normal University committed suicide by jumping off a building.
On Dec. 13, a student at Jilin University’s Remton College committed suicide by jumping off a building.
On Dec. 15, a junior student at the Mechanical and Electrical College of Beijing Jiaotong University committed suicide by jumping off a building.
On Dec. 16, a student at Jilin University’s Remton College committed suicide by taking drugs.
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