A woman who was undergoing training to become a nun was found hanging in a convent room in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
“I am going to Jesus as I understand I cannot lead a genuine life on this earth,” Anna Poorani’s suicide note read.
The 27-year-woman was an aspirant of the Sisters of Providence of the Institute of Charity, (Rosminian Sisters of Providence), an Italian congregation. She was residing at the congregation’s Vettuthura convent near Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala state.
She died by hanging from the ceiling fan in her room on February 27.
The suicide note written in Tamil, her mother tongue, said she had taken full responsibility for her action.
She was the latest among nearly two dozen suicides of nuns in the Catholic Church in India since 1987. Most death were reported from Kerala.
Sister Mary Helen Sebastian, the provincial superior in a press note, expressed her congregation’s condolences.
“Poorani had joined the community on the previous night for all activities until she retired to bed,” said the provincial stated.
When Poorani failed to turn up for morning prayers the next day, other nuns went to her room and found her hanging from the ceiling fan.
