India, March 8 -- After a Kanpur native died by suicide amid a marital dispute with his wife in Mumbai's Ville Parle last week, his mother penned an emotional note in grief.

This comes amid an uproar over the lack of gender-neutral laws to protect men in marital disputes after several such cases have been reported in the last few months.

"Today I feel like a living corpse. You are seeing me as a living person, but the truth is that I am dead," the mother wrote in a long Facebook post.

She further wrote that her "life is over now" since her son was no more.

"My son left me. I have now become a living corpse. He was supposed to perform my last rites but I have performed my son's last rites today on 2nd March at "ECO-MOKSHA" Mumbai. My d...