As to one of your other points, many suicides do not leave notes. It's a myth brought about by movies and books that all suicides leave florid, melodramatic accountings of their mental states and reasons for shuffling off this mortal coil.

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I still can't decide if suicide is the easy way out or a really hard way forward. Takes some kind of will.

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The title of the book refers to people who commit suicide relatively early in life (as opposed to those who are aged and in declining health).

As a seasonal affective sufferer, with my full-spectrum light on as I write this, I know far too much about winter darkness.

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I'd like to see citations on that. (Disney's lemming set-up doesn't count.)

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