> Why is there so much focus on preventing suicide rather than improving people's well-being? There isn't a focus on merely preventing suicide while not improv

> Why is there so much focus on preventing suicide rather than improving people's well-being? There isn't a focus on merely preventing suicide while not improving well-being. Anyone working in suicide prevention or public health will talk - at length - about the wider determinants of health and mental health. If it appears that there's a focus on preventing death over other measures that's because the work has focussed streams of activity. General health and well being does get discussed on HN.