[ceejayoz]

> Committing suicide almost certainly guarantees further suicides within that close family.

Not sure why this is downvoted.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-...

"The experience of losing a parent to suicide is a strong and independent risk factor for suicidal behaviour in offspring."

[feoren]

Because causation != correlation. This could just as easily be explained as "severe depression has a genetic factor".

[ceejayoz]

We know it has a genetic factor.

We also know that's not the full story, and that people who lose a parent at a young age for any reason are more likely to struggle emotionally.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

When teenage suicide clusters hit all the small towns within 50 miles of each other, you're positing that they were actually half-siblings and didn't know it, eh?

I'm glad people like you downvote me, it lets me know that I'm right.

[feoren]

> I'm glad people like you downvote me

HN doesn't let you downvote people who respond directly to you. Don't make assumptions like that.