we are all connected and we all have to die. Every single person could suddenly, when something essential to their livelihood or emotional support (children, spouse dying, house burning down etc) is taken away from them, become suicidal even for just a little while. We are all potential suicidal ideators. Job contemplated suicide when he was put into a position of losing everything. If you need a job (sorry pun) because you are broke and have applied for hundreds of jobs in the past weeks, good luck because employers are scared of losers, will turn away depressed looking people and just want someone to be happily functioning so the employer can be at ease with his fabulous enterprise that generously supplies jobs to so many awesome people. Most of us have bought the narrative that if you are persistent and do not give up (Job in the bible) you will be "rewarded". There is infinite evidence that this is not so. Why do we allow people to sell this narrative (politicians, pyramid marketing schemes) when it is proven that this is a misleading exploitative narrative? Someone is depressed and out of a job and rejected so many times by potential employers, well, I know this society if it wanted to could produce a job for them. I know society could produce 24/7 companions for them (they do it for people in a coma or brain dead patients, who when you think about it, do not need it) As it stands as an isolated depressive, there is little evidence that reaching out will produce the desired goal. However, suicide is very complicated for someone who does not qualify for MAID. In other words, society creates suicidal persons who have little choice but isolation but lets them get stuck at that point in their lives for... however long it might take for them to find an exit.
