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> Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder. If you look at the Wikipedia link tokenadult posted, it's clear that there are huge
by aneesh 17y ago
> Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder.
If you look at the Wikipedia link tokenadult posted, it's clear that there are huge variances both over time (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Hungarian_suicide_rate.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Hungarian...) and between different countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...).
That strongly suggests that some component of a society does influence the suicide rate. Of course, it's not the only factor, but it is surely a factor.
- yan 17y agoI'm sorry I didn't intend to mean it isn't a societal issue. The gist of what I was trying to get across is that in my opinion, no rational person would kill themselves regardless of their life situation.
- pygy 17y ago"Rational person" is an oxymoron. A sufficient amount of harassing and violence (both mental and physical) can lead someone to mental breakdown. The threshold may vary from one person to the next, of course, but it can be done. Furthermore, some studies suggest that depressed people have a more objective assesment of reality (specifically, their estimation of what other people think of them is spot on, whereas non depressed people think that the others see them in a better light than they actually do). We developed through evolution an optimist bias that keeps most people afloat and allowed humans to survive despite their part of rationality.