The reason we have to be careful about how we talk about suicide is that, however inevitable depression may be, suicide is preventable. Suicide rates vary and fluctuate all the time, between genders and eras and places. People are dying, daily, from our inability to talk about mental health properly. Partly, this is unavoidable. We simply don’t know enough about how the brain works. Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we’d like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.