What makes desperate families adopt suicide as ‘escape’?

• Mental health experts explain how diseased mind perceives and rationalises the extreme act • Identify socio-economic distress, anguish, despair and mental health conditions as key factors • Stress that psychiatric conditions are treatable with therapy and medication KARACHI: How could one spouse persuade the other to participate in a joint suicide and kill their own children? Two recent incidents in Karachi, in which parents allegedly killed their own children and a household member before ending their own lives, make answering this troubling question particularly urgent. In September, the…