“I am your opponent before God, and he will come with my right, and I will race you to the one who created the heavens and the earth.” Words contained in the will of an Egyptian young man who ended his life live on Facebook by taking toxic yield-preserving pills.

According to Egyptian newspapers and news websites, the young man named Amr Zayed (31 years old), who lives in the village of Al-Qasr Al-Akhdar, affiliated to the city of Kafr El-Dawwar in the Beheira Governorate (north of Cairo), committed suicide due to family disputes, and accusations leveled against him of harassing the wife of one of his relatives.

In the video, which was widely popular on social media, Amr spoke of his feeling of injustice recently directed to one of his relatives, saying, "I wait for you (waiting for you) in the hereafter because (because of) your injustice to me."

In the video he recorded before committing suicide, he denied the accusations against him of "harassing the wife" of one of his relatives, saying, "I did not film your wife and nephew who did that."

According to the "Sada Al-Balad" website, the young man's relatives rushed after watching the video, trying to rescue him by transferring him to the poison center in Alexandria, but he breathed his last as soon as he reached the hospital.

The young man’s family found a letter in his handwriting in which he wrote a “will” in which he requested that some of his relatives not attend his funeral, saying, “I am your opponent before God and all of your family, and whoever helped them in my oppression, and none of them enters my condolences or my house, and nothing is accepted from them until I take revenge from them before God.” and those who helped them, and I will be their opponent on the Day of Judgment.”

The young man concluded his message by saying, "I am the slave who was wronged by all people, from family and friends who ate my rights and complained to God... I like to be buried with the Book of God in my bosom so that my loneliness is sociable."

The young man’s will dealt with by news sites in Egypt and social networking sites (communication sites)

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However, the young man's wife revealed in statements to "Al-Masry Al-Youm" newspaper today, Saturday, that her husband had reached this point due to disputes with his uncles due to inheritance, and that they were beating him, attacking him, using their influence against him, and accusing him of false accusations.

She added that her husband lived an orphan and now his children have also become orphans because of those who wronged him, so they brought him to the point of ending his life after he got tired of many problems, stressing that "his children do not deserve to have their father's fate die in this way, and I want him (I want) his right from those who harmed him."

As for his brother, he says that he was threatened with imprisonment from those whom he mentioned in the suicide video, and added that the young man who committed suicide woke his wife and children to pray and then made the video and took two grains of grain that are used as an insecticide in rural areas of Egypt.

From time to time, Egypt witnesses suicide attempts, some of which succeed, for economic and emotional reasons, while the official authorities call on those who have such thoughts to go to a psychiatrist, in an attempt to solve their problems and contact the hotline of the General Secretariat of Mental Health at the Ministry of Health, to help those who have psychological problems or a desire to commit suicide.

According to international reports based on data from the World Health Organization published in 2020, the number of deaths caused by suicide in Egypt reached 3022 cases, or 0.56% of the total deaths, which placed it in the 158th place globally and first in the Arab world in cases of suicide.

On the other hand, the Egyptian authorities are skeptical about these numbers, and consider them "inaccurate because they depend on estimates and not on numbers" without completely denying the phenomenon, according to local reports.

The Center for Social and Criminological Research issued a report in 2020 in which it indicated that the suicide rate did not exceed 1.29 people per 100,000 people during 2018. The report monitored the prevalence of suicide among rural residents, not just residents of overcrowded cities.

In 2018, a study by the Egyptian Ministry of Health - conducted on a sample of 10,648 male and female students, aged between 14 and 17 years - revealed that 21.5% of secondary school students in Egypt contemplate suicide.

The Numbeo classification of crime rates among countries indicates that Egypt ranks 65th in the world and 19th in Africa for the statistics of the middle of this year.