Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides - latimes.com:
Apparently, outside of Chestertonian jokes and in the real American army, it is rather the opposite. Apparently death-by-combat-with-the-enemy is as popular as death by cop, but when a disappointing post far from the front comes through instead, suicide is common.
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"researchers now tend to believe that some people have an underlying vulnerability that makes them more likely to kill themselves when faced with certain stressful situations"
I can see that in myself. If my life ever becomes irreversibly miserable, that will be it for me.
Yes- some people lack the courage needed to face life. I was that way for a while in my teens and twenties- but, here's a thought. Plan to fail. Failing at suicide was one of the better things that ever happened to me.
Having my wife find the note was one of the best things to happened. I couldn't have planned it to work out that way if I tried. It did seem like divine intervention. As did my meeting her 41 years ago.
Hmm, I never thought of the fact that I survived taking a 30 pills of OTC tylenol 26 years ago as divine intervention, but maybe you're right.
Well, I'm glad you survived. You've come a long way since then.
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