>The rising suicide rates are a damning indictment of a society that produces immense wealth for a few while subjecting the majority to crushing economic insecurity, social isolation and chronic distress.

Will the US soon rival or overtake Japan and South Korea as a highly suicidal society?
Should "MAiD in America" become a thing, so that people with suicidal ideation can have a clean, stigma-free way out of this life?

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/10/hckx-j10.html

to the masses, how many people in your country would opt out of life, do you think, each year?
I think it's mostly age old stigmas against suicide that keeps people who hate their lives from ending their lives. That and the possibility of botching the suicide or the mess it will leave if you use a bullet.
But if suicide were normalized like any other medical procedure, and there were support networks of professionals available for those who wonder if they're better off dead than alive, then, I think, in the US alone, at least a couple million people per year would take the assisted suicide route.
Out deaths would be outnumbering our births each year, possibly by quite a large margin. A lot of people cling to life by a threat, just due to fear, stigma, not wanting to hurt relatives' feelings etc.