> "A 30 year old committing suicide objectively costs far more human life than a 95 year old dying of Covid-19." Only if you assume the 30 year old lives to be

> "A 30 year old committing suicide objectively costs far more human life than a 95 year old dying of Covid-19." Only if you assume the 30 year old lives to be 95 and is not going to commit suicide age 31 from a different life stressor event. Unless they are actively helped, taking away one trigger event at one point in their life is not the same as them being saved from suicide until age 95. > "also, suicide and other deaths of despair are far more socially costly" and /more fixable/. Hopeless -> suicide is a pattern that cognitive behavioural therapy can work on. It shouldn't be the case that society has such poor mental health support that "their life fell apart which lead to their suicide" leads to this kind of life or death trade of "who should die to prevent their life falling apart?" instead of "help with the mental health part so they can survive their life falling apart".