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Haimy great point.
Something I’ve been confused about for a while is the classical Jewish approach to suicide. Nowadays the prevalent attitude is to sympathise with what the person must have been going through and how terrible it must have been for them, just with a proviso that they still shouldn’t have. Yet the classical approach seems to be as though they killed themselves for fun, or because they couldn’t control the suicide taavo. There doesn’t seem to be an understanding of the depression which is presumably what caused 99% of these suicides.