Article elides over the fact that in the US, suicide may be the result of rational analysis, including consideration of pros and cons, in response to specific a

Article elides over the fact that in the US, suicide may be the result of rational analysis, including consideration of pros and cons, in response to specific and relevant factors. Particularly economic factors. Looming large is the idea that healthcare costs can burn down an entire lifetime of toil, saving, and planning in a matter of months. Some people would prefer to leave something of value to their survivors, rather than give everything that's left to their last physician, and then be a charity case or family burden for all their remaining days. Gen X and Millennial cohorts are even less secure than Boomers financially as they age, so the problem will only grow worse. If you have a tiny nest egg, and a fixed income, it doesn't take much math to calculate the amount of time one can afford to continue to live, given a certain expense profile. When the choices come down to the number of additional weeks you can eke out by switching from Spam to store-brand cat food, it may also become attractive to look into eating a nice steak dinner, saving the last big chunk of meat to be aspirated, so your survivors don't know, for certain, that you committed suicide. If you were staring down the barrel of a life where nothing joyful or worthwhile will ever happen to you again, and every day will be slightly worse than the last, and is marked only by the angle of the shadows and the color of the pills, with no hope of reversal, I can't reasonably argue against suicide. In that sense, denying the methods and opportunities for suicide without addressing the root causes of motive, as the facility is paid for every day the person lives, seems a bit like torture for profit. I have personally changed domicile cities four times in my career, looking for gainful employment, and each time I came away with fewer people that would even notice if I die this evening. I expect that my children will soon leave me, hopefully to find work that allows them to support themselves, and if I don't die first, I will one day lose my spouse as well. I see no way to avoid this. I can't afford now to worry about whether I will be lonely later. My lack of lifetime financial security has translated into a smaller social support network of friends, and has definitely resulted in choosing to have fewer children. And it has reduced the amount of time I can spend renewing family relationships. My parents see less of me when I am 400 miles away than they did when I was 150 miles away. I'm certainly not alleviating their loneliness. If either committed suicide, I'm not certain how I would even find out about it.