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This lumps all the people who die by suicide into a single category. People commit suicide for various reasons.

Some of them do it to stop suffering, as the article says. Some do it out of sheer vengeance. Some do it as part of a pact. Some do it in such a way so that the cause is not proven to be suicide, and thus their near-and-dear get the insurance money. Some do it so that they have control over their lives till the very end. Some others like Mitchell Heisman, do it just because they can.

At the same time, some of these causes are preventable. Good faith attempts to address those causes are, of course, always laudable.




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