Suicide is often not a very rational or well considered option, except in regards to medical assisted suicide. Suicide is, as they say, a permanent solution to

Suicide is often not a very rational or well considered option, except in regards to medical assisted suicide. Suicide is, as they say, a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But it's a lot more complicated than that. I think the best argument for suicide intervention are the many stories from folks who came the closest to succeeding in their suicide attempts, failed, and then changed their minds and decided against suicide. That speaks to the fact that the reasoning going into a suicide attempt is often not on solid ground, and that there are often a lot of ways to remediate "future decades of misery" that are not ending a life. Speaking personally, I know a lot of people who have had thoughts of committing suicide or have made an unsuccessful attempt at doing so and in every case it was an erroneous decision, in every case their future was full of a lot more than years of misery.