Musiime

Over a century ago, Émile Durkheim’s “Suicide” argued that suicide is not merely an individual psychological act, but a result of how tightly people are connected to society and how much structure their lives have. He described egoistic suicide from isolation, anomic suicide from social breakdown and loss of direction, altruistic suicide from excessive identification with a group, & fatalistic suicide from crushing regulation or hopeless confinement. His deeper insight was that people become dangerously vulnerable when they feel unneeded, unmoored, or trapped, when belonging, meaning & a sense of future collapse. The world has become lonelier now than ever before. Relationships are down. Unemployment is up. People don’t recognize where they’ve grow up. Everyone is hostile & doom and fear are plastered all over social media & TV. It’s no wonder so many people are committing suicide. We need to bring back hope, and good will.