True, false, or not even wrong?
When survival becomes easy, people with low interest in surviving live on.
Asymptotic: when survival is free, the suicidal survive
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Seems a bit tautological as phrased. More practically what I consider cost of survival has been inversely proportional to suicides
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The harder it is to survive the more people find it worthwhile to live on? That seems prima facie wrong. Suicide rates spike during economic and political crises
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If you’re suicidal, survival is not free, it is excruciatingly painfully/costly.
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Sounds like we don’t know anyone who was seriously suicidal. I’m going with not even close enough to be wrong so far.
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I do actually, but the more stereotypical kind you also appear to know. Trying to tag a different kind of subset than you are, driven by material factors. Middle-aged males in post-Soviet collapse, indebted farmers after a string of bad monsoons etc.
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It's false for assuming only the poorest are suicidal. Plenty of people can afford to keep "surviving" and commit suicide anyway, whether survival is "easy" or "hard".
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Survival is never free, and especially not for the suicidal.
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