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I was recently reading a report saying that suicide rathes for 10-to-24-year-olds have increased by 8% between 2003 and 2004, making it the largest single-year increase in 15 years.
I don’t know why are they only now releasing data that should have been available in 2005 at the latest, but I’m finding something else even more ironic: “Researchers looked at trends during the 15-year period by gender, age group and suicide method. It did not examine reasons for the changes in suicide rates.” Typical, don’t care about the cause, only look at the effects.

And yet again I’m wondering why is it so bad? Why don’t they think a person has the right to make that choice about their own life? Why is there all this push for preventing suicide itself instead of, say, I don’t know, perhaps working on changing society so less people will find their lives not worth living anymore?
But, of course, that would make sense, so the powers that be could never do such a thing as that. Plus that psychologists and drug companies would lose all the money they make off “treating” depressed people now, let’s not forget about that!
All this only says one thing, that they’re doing all they can to make people learn to accept what they want them to accept, not only stopping them from fighting back and changing what they don’t like, but even taking away their right to get away from it all!
They’re talking about noticing the warning signs of suicidal thoughts and taking action against them, which generally is what they call “increasing a person’s coping abilities”… I call it making them submit to the world, make them accept that shit will happen most of the time and there’s nothing they can do about it, that they’re not worth anything but that’s fine since nobody wants them to be worth anything anyway, that their feelings are only there to be trampled upon and that they’d be better off to just block them all anyway, become mindless drones happily doing what’s expected on them, crawling along a path to nowhere.

I still find life itself as having a large negative value, making it require plenty of good things to happen to make it worth living. And I don’t have much hope of that in today’s world… But, since I’m still here, I have to think about all the others who think of it but don’t do it, either because they’re afraid to or because they still have that tiny shred of hope that things might yet get better, and therefore keep on suffering and crawling along on that path to nowhere…
Don’t know about you, but I think that anything that makes a person want to kill themselves is extremely important, at least for that person at that time. Barging into their lives and forcing them to set that problem aside and keep going, or just scaring them into keeping going somehow, whether or not they set the problem aside, means forcing them to change their priorities. Basically, it says “I don’t care what the problem is, it’s wrong to be bothered by it, and if you are bothered by it then you’re wrong, it doesn’t matter and if it defines you then I guess you don’t matter either, but I need you to stick around anyway so you won’t mess up my success record”.

Basically, suicides mean that society failed in front of the individual. That’s probably their worst problem with it, more than their pockets, their pride or the false sense of usefulness. They can’t tolerate the evidence that society is wrong, that it fails, that it needs changing. So they “doctor the evidence”, which in this case are the people who are hit hardest by society’s flaws, the people who probably could do the most for the world if they’d only have the opportunity to do it in their own way.