Issues such as suicide befuddle mere people around the world and perplex even the minds of scientists. The reasons behind suicide have begun to be uncovered by scientists' studies. Observations and behavioral clues were dissected and worked upon to determine what exactly causes suicide attempts to be carried out. Background information and conditions of the attempters are taken into perspective and compared to each other to discover correlations and continuous patterns. Although there is no set reason as to why suicides are attempted, there are many plausible answers.

As the annual numbers of suicide cases reach a sad 30,000, the question as to why they do it is emphasized and asked continuously by grieved family members. That same question is established as the key causal question: Why do people commit suicide? Many hypotheses have been generated to satisfy this question, but whether they are credible or not are yet to be seen.

A few hypotheses mentioned in this article are as follows: Low serotonin levels in the brain are linked to depression, aggressive behavior, and a tendency toward impulsiveness; few neurons in the orbital prefrontal cortex can cause suicide; individuals considering suicide had many more serotonin receptors.

Many experiments were carried out to test the credibility of the hypotheses and determine what caused people to commit suicide. All the experiments were held in relation to each other, applying to many other hypotheses. Ultimately, the experiments played a huge part in eliminating false hypotheses and supporting others to form one big result.

For the first experiment, Researchers examined brains for neuroanatomical, chemical, or genetic alterations that might have contributed to their act of suicide. The control group was the brain of a person (without a psychiatric disorder) of the same sex and age of death as the suicide brain. The control group and the experimental group (suicide brain) were compared and contrasted in meticulous detail to decipher whether the nervous systems had something to do with the act of suicide.

After tests and examinations of the brains, the difference in the availability of the brain chemical serotonin-previous research on the basis of impulsivity has indicated a shortage of it. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, is one of the molecules that jump synapses between neurons to relay a signal from one such brain cell to another. As mentioned above, the reports indicated that there was a shortage

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