Wow, suicide comes in at #6, 1:119. That is a seriously 'wow' number.
Really? I guess I knew that. As dad used to say, "At least they made a decision."
So many float along through life with no ability to decide what they want, let alone ability or guts to decide to go after it, that someone deciding they're done and not interested anymore, really doesn't surprise me at all.
I'm guessing no one has the guts to say, "he died doing what he wanted to" on suicide, though... like we spew religiously after someone screws up and balls up an airplane.
If I ever screw up and kill myself in an airplane, I sure hope no moron comes to the remembrance and spews that crap. No, crashing and dying was NOT what I "loved doing", idiot. Flying safely was.
(My wife is authorized to kick anyone saying this at my funeral squarely in the cojones, by the way. If that unfortunate turn of events were to occur.)
Anyway... Someone wants to check out, fine by me. We should allow them to do so in a non-degrading way. We don't. It's sick that we make them hide it, and be found by a loved one or public safety person. Often when they start to stink.
You've said it yourself. Nature fixes things all the time. Overpopulation tends to be because things are so easy that even the lazy eat, right? The prevalence of depressive/self-destructive mental disorders and the likeliness it's based in genetics, seems to corroborate your theory.
If your genes are made up of the "give up on life easily" type, but society feeds and clothes you, you end up having to take action to accomplish what would have happened, if you sat and didn't hunt/fish/survive in harder times.
Many don't take the action even. They just float along, being miserable. Others choose to quit more actively. The gene pool loses the types that don't want to be here. Seems kinda natural.
Sad? Sure. But inevitable. Do people around them blame themselves? Sure. All natural. Can some be persuaded life is worth living before doing it? Sure. Some. Not all. Again, natural.
Harsh. But reality. Some people do not want to live.
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