Nobody had suggested maybe death wasn’t the right way to go about things or urged them to talk to someone. There were threads from teens who’d had enough of living their too-few years and victims of terminal illnesses and mental health problems. Some came from elderly people so scared of a long, drawn-out death that they wanted to go on their own terms. Loneliness, abuse, depression, war, bullying, sexuality, eating disorders … the list of reasons to die was endless.
