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"This is a dangerous and misleading article. It completely ignores chemical imbalances in the brain (both hormonal and other) and puts way too much focus on the idea that simple pressure to perform is enough to be a cause of suicide."
It's an article about how the culture of silicon valley can contribute to that. It's fairly implicit that suicide generally has multiple causes that have been covered to death in many many places already.
"Suicide is highly skewed towards males"
SUCCESSFUL suicide is highly skewed towards males. Suicide attempts are highly skewed towards females, men just tend to choose highly effective, messy methods of suicide. In cases where there is easy access to lethal drugs the suicide rate between men and women is very similar.
"And what age group has the highest suicide rate in the U.S? Over 65. Higher than college, and more than twice as high as teenagers."
Yes, I agree that this is a big problem. The suicide rate for the over 65 crowd needs to be much, much higher than it is now. Our present medical system effectively tortures our elderly to death for profit by keeping them alive long after it is ethically reasonable to do so.
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