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>Which is why suicide is a leading cause of death, I suppose.
>Before you respond with "that's because our natural causes of death are being eliminated by modern medicine" also consider that in many developed countries, suicide is now a significant problem among teenagers and young adults

It's not because 'natural' causes of death are being eliminated, it's because these same individuals would have gone to war and either died or returned home having accomplished something.

War is in our blood and young adults are the ones who historically would have gone and fought. The amount of suicides is still massively under the number of deaths that would have been caused by warfare.

As a whole it is the best time to be alive, but individuals are not the whole, they are a part of the whole, and sometimes the part that was left behind.