While this navel gazing is a good thing to do in order to make sure that we are not unnecessarily adding to the problem, one should remember here that the suicide rate in tech is far below that in the general population. Between my 18th birthday and my 22nd I had seven friends commit suicide in the industrial belt of Alabama in the late 70's to early 80's.
In my now 33 years in tech, this is only the second suicide that I know of and the other was a senior VP at Fairchild in 1989. That one was extremely tragic as I met him as I was a student and our last conversation to this day has been a reminder not to let failure overly cloud your judgement of your self worth.
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