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I've seen far too many people my age or younger take their own lives. Often they're out of the situation that caused the harm which leads to their death, but the suicide isn't the end. Daniel, in this case, wasn't making things easier for his family or friends. He didn't make a rational choice. But that's the nature of the illness...thinking the physical and emotional pain won't end, thinking loved ones will ultimately be better off...these are objectively incorrect and wrong. Too bad he didn't have proper medical care or family/friends forcing him to receive treatment. Treating the human mind to not want to destroy life is very possible with today's medicine. It's unfortunate he's another sad statistic and until society as a whole addresses suicide without buzzwords for fear of taboo, takes handcuffs off doctors so they can prescribe heavy narcotics short-term and marijuana long-term, insurance covers hour-long talk therapies, and our military brass stops lying to injured soldiers about the cause of their injuries (specific to military TBIs) then this problem will merely replicate over and over again.
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