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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I was imagining a mechanism analogous to hormesis, but looks like you may be more correct. Trends during the 20th century don't scream anything obvious to me personally.
ourworldindata.org/suicide was the most comprehensive resource
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