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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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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How about- “when survival is costly, the premium for living is diminished”
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