The reaction to a senseless death like that of Stephen “tWitch” Boss illuminates a gulf: between people who absolutely can’t understand it, and people who can. The former are the ones who tend to say that suicide is cruel or selfish or indefensible. That’s very wrong, but you can understand how they can’t make the cognitive leap if they’ve never experienced real depression. The latter are more likely to be thankful they got through the worst times.

“living in a high-poverty neighborhood increases exposure to many different air toxics during infancy, that it reduces cognitive abilities measured later at age 4 by about one-tenth of a standard deviation, and that about one-third of this effect can be attributed to disparities in air quality.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add0285