If "number of dead people" is the only metric we care about, yes, you're 100% right. But that's not the only thing that matters. I don't want to keep going dow

If "number of dead people" is the only metric we care about, yes, you're 100% right. But that's not the only thing that matters. I don't want to keep going down the car rabbit hole, so to bring it back to suicide: increased rates of mental distress (as indicated by higher incidences of suicidal ideation) is very bad. This would likely mean several other things which are damaging to both the individuals and society (loss of income, additional expenses from medical treatment, possible run ins with criminal or psychological incarceration) As with most things, there's no "magic metric" when it comes to mental health relating to suicide that we could say "if we can get this down to 0 everything is fixed".