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>>4209565
>You cannot possibly argue with the fact that depression and suicide rates are skyrocketing.
I can and I will argue so.

First, the increase of the global suicide rate comes mainly from developing countries, not the western world.
Actually the suicide rate in the OECD has been going down. See pic.

Second, you have romantic notions about what suicide is.
Suicide rates are higher in aged demographics (which kinda deflects the generation thing), and more importantly the first cause of suicide isn't "general unease", but mental illness.
And before you say it's caused by society, no, the general zeitgeist doesn't cause neurodegenerative diseases.

Old people kill themselves not because they "generally feel ill at ease with modern society", but because it's something you do when all your friends are dead and you're losing your head.
Obviously the aging of population ought to have an effect of the general suicide rate.