>>43821I think suicide is okay as long as it's rational - but that's really not the case for most suicides. Most people who commit suicide have acceptable lives. And the most difficult part is that it's difficult to assess whether someone is being rational about wanting to commit suicide, or merely thinks they are being rational when some mental illness is weighing down on them.
As said, it's natural to not commit suicide. There's something going wrong with the development of human society that makes people commit suicide. Suicide has been increasing for decades, despite the standard of living exploding.
My personal theory is the increasing lack of connection in society. Tribal and community groups have been breaking down more and more over the decades. People live their lives as individuals in isolation. You're a kid growing up, and your parents move. Most if not all of your relationships are severed. You graduate high school and go to college. Most of your relationships are severed or fade over those years. You graduate college and move for a job or a spouse. All your college connections are then severed or fade. Then by that time, very few people are putting themselves out there anymore, looking for real friends, because they're busy with work, their spouse, or children. Even if you are looking for that, it's difficult to know where to look. Sure you can pick up a hobby, but you need more than one thing in relation to become a friend, and it can be difficult to make that transition.
People weren't meant to live so isolated and to have so frequently abandon and move on from their social networks. The way we relate to each other is increasingly shallow as well. Even if we have an in-depth conversation here, it's absolutely nothing compared to having this conversation in real life. Now most people's "friends" are just avatars on Facebook or numbers in a phone, but not real friends, not really.
