See: "Grad school is worse for public health than STDs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749279 And my comm

See: "Grad school is worse for public health than STDs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749279 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21749279 And my comment there. And also my comment here (which links to more): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21629112 A good resource on suicide prevention: https://www.metanoia.org/suicide/ https://www.metanoia.org/suicide/ "When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicidal feelings are the result. Suicide is neither wrong nor right; it is not a defect of character; it is morally neutral. It is simply an imbalance of pain versus coping resources. You can survive suicidal feelings if you do either of two things: (1) find a way to reduce your pain, or (2) find a way to increase your coping resources. Both are possible." A Basic Income could make a big difference to make it possible for people to live a graduate student lifestyle without the stress of navigating the social dysfunction of many (not all) graduate programs...