Failed app drives Hyderabad techie to suicide

[jamahir]

App Fails, 33-Year-Old Commits Suicide by Inhaling Nitrogen

CNN-News18
First published: April 21, 2016, 11:32 AM IST | Updated: 44 mins ago

Image : A note left by the techie in his room along with the nitrogen gas cylinder.

A 33-year-old techie committed suicide in Hyderabad after an app developed by him failed to take off. The man took the extreme step by inhaling nitrogen gas.

The man has been identified as Lucky Gupta Agarwal. When his father went to look for him in his room, he found his son lying dead wearing a mask which was connected to a nitrogen gas cylinder.

According to a Times of India report, Lucky wrote in his suicide note that he used nitrogen to commit suicide as it was the easiest way. "Lucky wrote that he was lucky to die in a painless way. He also wrote that he adopted the suicide method of using nitrogen as it was the easiest and painless way," a police officer said.

Police seized a nitrogen cylinder with a pipe connected to the mask.

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source - http://www.news18.com/news/india/ap...its-suicide-by-inhaling-nitrogen-1232648.html

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jamahir's comment - i think there is a socio-economic angle to this in form of pressure from his parents and so-called friends who were berating him because his social networking app did not succeed and that he should have really being in some wage-slavery ( job )... typical indian middle class story... more of this story in the 'times of india' original story[1] quoted above.

lucky gupta agarwal was not so lucky.

another addition to india's tally as 'suicide capital of the world'.

where is the bjp government's much vaunted "startup india" programme??

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[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ad-techie-to-suicide/articleshow/51916461.cms

 

[Skull and Bones]

I remember, when I first came to internet, there were many social networking sites like Hi5, Perfspot, Orkut, Ibibo. I guess all of their founding members must have committed suicide by now.

 

[jamahir]

I remember, when I first came to internet, there were many social networking sites like Hi5, Perfspot, Orkut, Ibibo. I guess all of their founding members must have committed suicide by now.

they didn't have to live with typical indian parents and have typical pal-mey-maasha-pal-mey-allah type indian friends.

 

[Parul]

The coward could have tried to something better in his life, rather than committing Suicide.

 

[Styx]

I have 0 sympathy for suiciders, they are weak and disgusting people, no different than suicide bombers in my opinion.

 

[somebozo]

jamahir's comment - i think there is a socio-economic angle to this in form of pressure from his parents and so-called friends who were berating him because his social networking app did not succeed and that he should have really being in some wage-slavery ( job )... typical indian middle class story... more of this story in the 'times of india' original story[1] quoted above.

Our parents are conditioned form centuries of slavery and raise their kids to be wage slave tooo..

 

[Icarus]

What a pity, and the lack of empathy on this thread is even more disturbing. Its hard enough being an entrepreneur in a society where anything less than being a doctor and engineer is seen as being a disgrace and what does not help is the lack of a cushion to help innovators deal with the blow back in case one of their projects fails to take off.
I don't know about India but Pakistan has luckily seen the proliferation of incubation centers that help startups by mitigating costs, providing them servers, office space, clients and even funding until the project is able to break even, successful projects then become backers for the incubation center and help some other young innovator meet his dream.
His unconventional choice of suicide method also indicates that this was no ordinary guy, he had an analytical and fact based approach even towards death, he could have become a great entrepreneur if he had persevered through this crisis and remained steadfast a little longer. Even Jack Ma, owner of a $60 Billion Company was also denied the manager's position at KFC and launched a number of internet based projects that failed, that's just how it is.

 

[AbRaj]

The coward could have tried to something better in his life, rather than committing Suicide.

Please don't disrespect dead soul

I have 0 sympathy for suiciders, they are weak and disgusting people, no different than suicide bombers in my opinion.

I have coz they are weak but not to those who want to teach lessons by committing Suicide

 

[Bombaywalla]

What on Earth is "he suicides"?

LMAO

 

[ifesvr]

i think there is a socio-economic angle to this in form of pressure from his parents and so-called friends who were berating him because his social networking app did not succeed and that he should have really being in some wage-slavery ( job )

another addition to india's tally as 'suicide capital of the world'.

where is the bjp government's much vaunted "startup india" programme??

wow, you have officially pulled yourself in the same boat as Rakhi Sawant! Blame others for his own mistake!

 

[Parul]

Please don't disrespect dead soul

We all fail in our lives, regroup and try to overcome our failures.The cowards take the easy way - Suicide. I don't intend to disrespect...

 

[jamahir]

I have 0 sympathy for suiciders, they are weak and disgusting people, no different than suicide bombers in my opinion.

so the 300,000 indian farmers who suicided between 1995 and 2015 ( who knows how many before ) were all weak and disgusting people??

yet another case of blame the victim.

now these farmers are the very people about whom india's non-socialist national leaders made a slogan in the 60's - "jai jawaan, jai kisaan" ( glory to the soldier, glory to the farmer ), but where is the indian government making empathy with the plight of the farmers or any of the other oppressed??

please develop empathy... it's not difficult.

Our parents are conditioned form centuries of slavery and raise their kids to be wage slave tooo..

agreed.

in our region the only true inheritance that most middle class parents give to their children is middle class poverty that must be pushed from month to month through wage-slavery, and so have passed three or four generations after 1945.

What a pity, and the lack of empathy on this thread is even more disturbing.

it really shows a lot of the world being bereft of human values... and we must note the political affiliations of these particular callous members on this thread.

Its hard enough being an entrepreneur in a society where anything less than being a doctor and engineer is seen as being a disgrace and what does not help is the lack of a cushion to help innovators deal with the blow back in case one of their projects fails to take off.

absolutely.

what are parents and friends for, if not especially for times like these?? this is so sad.

i believe that "depression" ( that this young man supposedly had ) is not really a real physiological condition but something that is socially imposed and the sufferer is forced into saying "oh i have depression".

to take from your statement and what i added, if his immediate social contacts were supportive and probably given him money to go to a hill station for a month or two to ease off and get more ideas, he would have been happy and not come to the situation of suicide.

beyond that, if the political system is a humane welfare state that is especially created for social harmony and making reasonable material comforts available without any difficulty, there will be no room for 99 percent of suicides.

I don't know about India but Pakistan has luckily seen the proliferation of incubation centers that help startups by mitigating costs, providing them servers, office space, clients and even funding until the project is able to break even, successful projects then become backers for the incubation center and help some other young innovator meet his dream.

there are incubation centers here too, though because of the socio-economic culture of "return on investment must be immediate" the projects selected will be another e-commerce project or a online exams preparations site or some such frivolous stuff and not much that requires a long time to build and test.

where there is physical components or machinery required for a project it becomes next to impossible to obtain money unless one has supportive parents or friends or one has somehow saved money from previous employment or has government or institutional support.

so even when there are capable people they find it so difficult.

His unconventional choice of suicide method also indicates that this was no ordinary guy, he had an analytical and fact based approach even towards death, he could have become a great entrepreneur if he had persevered through this crisis and remained steadfast a little longer. Even Jack Ma, owner of a $60 Billion Company was also denied the manager's position at KFC and launched a number of internet based projects that failed, that's just how it is.

agreed.

What on Earth is "he suicides"?

LMAO

surely we must celebrate your outstanding contribution to this thread by laughing with you on this dead young man.

wow, you have officially pulled yourself in the same boat as Rakhi Sawant! Blame others for his own mistake!

how is rakhi sawant relevant here?? she blamed the ceiling fans for pratyusha's suicide instead of talking of removing the socio-economic situation that was the real cause of her suicide.

what i see you doing is blame the victim.

 

[Mentee]

RIP-----subcontinental education system and socio-economic paranoia freaks the hell out of every student

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Nitrogen cylinder

 

[Bombaywalla]

surely we must celebrate your outstanding contribution to this thread by laughing with you on this dead young man.

Surely, you have better comprehension skills than what you've just exhibited? Probably not.

I'm laughing at you, and how you've worded the title of this thread. Hilarious as always!