<p>A 65-year-old man from Sahasralli village in the taluk is suspected to have ended his life by lighting his own pyre at the foothills of Soppina Betta.</p>.<p>Shivaram Ramakrishna Hegde, a cancer patient, in his suicide note, said that he was doing it to attain moksha.</p>.<p>“I am not committing suicide. Everything is Maya (illusion). I am liberating myself from the cycle of death and rebirth,” stated the suicide note purportedly written by Shivaram Hegde. He also quoted a shloka from the Bhagavad Gita in his death note.</p>.<p>According to his family members, Hegde had lost his wife last year. He was suffering from cancer and he’d the feeling of being a burden to others. He himself performed his funeral rituals before lighting his own pyre. By doing so, he felt, he would attain the Moksha, they added.</p>.<p>The jurisdictional police have found Hegde’s shirt, kerosene bottle, ashes, body fragments at Narayanagowdana Vakkere near Soppina Betta.</p>
<p>A 65-year-old man from Sahasralli village in the taluk is suspected to have ended his life by lighting his own pyre at the foothills of Soppina Betta.</p>.<p>Shivaram Ramakrishna Hegde, a cancer patient, in his suicide note, said that he was doing it to attain moksha.</p>.<p>“I am not committing suicide. Everything is Maya (illusion). I am liberating myself from the cycle of death and rebirth,” stated the suicide note purportedly written by Shivaram Hegde. He also quoted a shloka from the Bhagavad Gita in his death note.</p>.<p>According to his family members, Hegde had lost his wife last year. He was suffering from cancer and he’d the feeling of being a burden to others. He himself performed his funeral rituals before lighting his own pyre. By doing so, he felt, he would attain the Moksha, they added.</p>.<p>The jurisdictional police have found Hegde’s shirt, kerosene bottle, ashes, body fragments at Narayanagowdana Vakkere near Soppina Betta.</p>
