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Suicide and mental deceases that cause it aren't very rational. Plus he might have had many personal/personality problems and the whole loss thing was just som
by dimitar 15y ago
Suicide and mental deceases that cause it aren't very rational. Plus he might have had many personal/personality problems and the whole loss thing was just something that was the last drop.
- steve-howard 15y agoI concur with this. I've had a lot of history of serious depression, and when people say "just don't commit suicide, duh" it shows a misunderstanding of the motives. There's always something going wrong in one's life, but I would say it's only the tip of the iceberg when someone commits suicide.
- MarkPNeyer 15y agopeople commit suicide in order to protect themselves from the pain they go through on a daily basis. that seems perfectly rational to me.
- tintin 15y agoThere have been a lot of interviews with people who committed suicide (and failed). Most of them said they did not plan it and it was a last minute decision. That sounds not very rational to me.
- ubercore 15y agoDon't want to argue the logic of suicide too much, but isn't that a self-selecting audience of people that didn't plan well, and hence "failed"? There are plenty of people that take their own life that spend quite a lot of time thinking about it, and planning.
- 0x12 15y agoThat has to be the most literal example ever of survivor bias.