Honestly I think that quality of life and quality of social interactions play a major, albeit understated, role in suicide. Studies like this also fail to take into account the number of 'accidental' suicides. Such as attempts to gain attention or acceptance, accidents deemed suicide, or the occasional but overlooked issue of autoerotic asphyxiation which we know causes some deaths as well.
Well if they knew that people were out there that actually wanted to help them, there's a little higher chance that they'd go seek help instead of killing themselves. Plus, education serves to inform others of the behaviors of a suicidal person, so if, for example, you think your neighbour is suicidal then can seek help for them.
I don't get that though. Who are we to determine that someone needs "help" simply because they want to die? Granted there are situations where you may be able to change their mind, but really, is it anyone else' business?
Simply because I don't feel like dying any time soon doesn't give me the right to go calling mental health and the police and god knows who else on my poor neighbor simply because I think that he wants to put a .45 through his skull.
I say if you want to go, then go. It's your life, it's your choice. If I know you then I'll miss you but really my desires to keep my loved ones around me are selfish in nature, yet to truly care about another is to be selfless.
So I say to you all, quit being selfish and let them go if that's what they truly want.
Suicide is what it is. I've known people who have committed suicide, it really quite is sad. But what can you? They're dead.
I wonder why they failed to take into account intoxication. I've never heard of someone committing suicide while not being drunk, lol. It's quite hard to that and not be.
