This is me. I'm a nice little boy whose life, because of certain personality traits and bad luck, hasn't gone the way it should have.
I was my father's favored son. Accordingly, he invested extensive amounts of time, energy, and money into me (he pampered and coddled me). Additionally, I was well known and well respected from an early age. Why? because I was highly athletic, intelligent, attractive, had a good disposition, and came from a relatively wealthy, high status family. However, because of psychological and behavioral traits (aggression, risk-taking, non-conformity, etc. leading me to associate with the wrong peer group) and bad luck, I've fallen in status and socioeconomic status and I'm now living a life far below my potential and unlike what I'm accustomed to (I continue to repeat this throughout my blog because many of you seem not to realize this or want to believe this).
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Had I stayed at one high school and maintained the GPA I had as a freshman and sophomore (3.6+) I would have never attended SDSU** and thus had to deal with the lower socioeconomic Mexicans, Filipinos, Blacks, and Poor, Liberal White Trash like you. (Liberal Cracker, I'm Going To Call Today At About 3 PM. Be Sure To Answer So That You Can Listen To ME To Determine What Social Class And What Peer Group Influenced ME.)
I Just Got Removed From An Airplane Because I Had An Outburst And Ignored A Flight Attendant. This Is The 2nd Ticket This Weekend That I've Thrown Away (At Least $500* Down The Drain).
*My Father And Mother Have Invested Over A Million Dollars In Me (Over A Million SPENT On ME In Regard To Schooling, Apartments, Cars, Trips, Money, Money, Money Given To ME, Legal Fees, Money, Money, Money Given To ME, Legal Fees, Money, Money, Money Given To ME, Etc.) And I've Done Nothing Productive With It. As A Matter Of Fact, I've Been A Disappointment And Burden On Them (They Should Have Never Had ME). This Is Why I'd Like To End My Life***. I Just Don't Have The Courage To Do It. Hopefully I Pissed Enough People Off And One Of Them Can Do It For ME!
Saying that suicide is adaptive may also sound odd to you from an evolutionary perspective, because on the surface it seems to fly in the face of evolution’s first rule of thumb, which is to survive and reproduce. However, as William Hamilton’s famous principle of inclusive fitness elucidated so clearly, it is the proportion of one’s genetic material surviving in subsequent generations that matters; and so if the self’s survival comes at the expense of one’s genetic kin being able to pass on their genes, then sacrificing one’s life for a net genetic gain may have been adaptive ancestrally.
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For the mathematically disinclined, this can all be translated rather straightforwardly as follows: People are most likely to commit suicide when their direct reproductive prospects are discouraging and, simultaneously, their continued existence is perceived, whether correctly or incorrectly, as reducing inclusive fitness by interfering with their genetic kin’s reproduction. Importantly, deCatanzaro, as well as other independent researchers, have presented data that support this adaptive model.
Most people who kill themselves actually lived better-than-average lives. Suicide rates are higher in nations with higher standards of living than in less prosperous nations; higher in US states with a better quality of life; higher in societies that endorse individual freedoms; higher in areas with better weather; in areas with seasonal change, they are higher during the warmer seasons; and they’re higher among college students that have better grades and parents with higher expectations.
Baumeister argues that such idealistic conditions actually heighten suicide risk because they often create unreasonable standards for personal happiness, thereby rendering people more emotionally fragile in response to unexpected setbacks. So, when things get a bit messy, such people, many of whom appear to have led mostly privileged lives, have a harder time coping with failures. “A large body of evidence,” writes the author, “is consistent with the view that suicide is preceded by events that fall short of high standards and expectations, whether produced by past achievements, chronically favorable circumstances, or external demands.” For example, simply being poor isn’t a risk factor for suicide. But going rather suddenly from relative prosperity to poverty has been strongly linked to suicide. Likewise, being a lifelong single person isn’t a risk factor either, but the transition from marriage to the single state places one at significant risk for suicide. Most suicides that occur in prison and mental hospital settings occur within the first month of confinement, during the initial period of adjustment to loss of freedom. Suicide rates are lowest on Fridays and highest on Mondays; they also drop just before the major holidays and then spike sharply immediately after the holidays. Baumeister interprets these patterns as consistent with the idea that people’s high expectations for holidays and weekends materialize, after the fact, as bitter disappointments.
