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That's a narrow view, using suicide as a mechanism of political change has a pretty substantial history. It turns out extremely marginalized people don't have a

• notch656a 4y ago
  It's rich comparing a Canadian woman who is handed literally everything except some extremely individualized demands on disability with apparently no need to work at all to "extremely marginalized" Chinese slave labor working 72+ hours a week in smog-filled cities where living labor-free in your own apartment next to someone smoking a cigarette sounds like a clean-room paradise. I would say being able to not work, have physician services, housing, and food provided to you in a first world nation all on the back of the public puts you squarely on one of the most privileged people on earth, one of the last place recipients in the oppression/marginalized Olympics if you will. And to go further and say "Give me more free shit or I off myself" puts it almost into the drop-dead-laughing realm of absurdity. And I might add blackmailing someone is a bit different than killing yourself purely in response to something. For instance, I consider the immolation of the monks to be different in the regard that they usually aren't sending letters "do what I say or I kill myself" but rather "I am killing myself in response to this injustice." One is blackmail, the other is not.