Squeezed in between the Baby Boomers entering retirement and the Gen X'ers churning along, and the next generation enjoying the fruits of economic recovery, are the Millennials. The dreaded, good-for-nothing Millennials. The constant bane of the older generation, lazy, over-educated, unemployed, Millennials seem to be the human trash of today's society. So what's a Millennial down on his or her luck to do? Could we, in fact, be seeing an entire generation ready to commit suicide - and is that in fact a bad thing?


An entire generation dying - or committing suicide - won't necessarily hurt a populace economically or socially. This is basically what happened to France in WWII - yes, things were rocky, but as hundreds of thousands of young men patriotically sacrificed their lives to stop the Huns at the gates of Paris, the people they left behind began the slow process of rebuilding. Today, the rebuilding is already being done, by the productive members of the older generation and the eager go-to guys and gals of the new one.

In fact, if anything, populations are quite big enough as they are. Overgrowth in population results in too much competition for the job market, which is exactly where Millennials find themselves. Birth rates are carried over from the Gen X'ers as their children (the products of the linked article above) are starting to go to high school. Birth rates among Millennials are low as they still struggle to find jobs and relationships so, really, we're not going to be missed all that much.


In a world that's getting increasingly sucky, I'd argue that there is extreme dignity, pride and freedom in affording oneself a comfortable suicide on his or her own terms. I don't think there's anything shameful about suicide at all - and in fact, it might even be downright patriotic. Suicide is a painful experience for your loved ones, but sometimes the personal pain of living in a world that actively rejects you is too much. Like I said, there is tremendous value in dying on your own terms, in comfort.

I don't know if I will hold true to my own words or if I'm just going to make myself look like the world's most massive hypocrite - I've got some time still to decide if I want to stick around or not - but really, I've had a lot of time to think about the advantages of suicide and I see some real strong points. I'm not saying that you should consider suicide yourself - it's not for everything - but hey, it might be for some people all along. The takeaway from this is that if someone you know does commit suicide, there are reasons for it. It's painful and hard for loved ones to discover what those reasons are, but as I said before (and even prior) sometimes it just makes a lot of sense.

UPDATE: Well, most of you pretty much figured out that this is a thinly-veiled suicide letter (which really wasn't hard to figure out) and a bunch of you posted the National Suicide Prevention Hotline or otherwise advised me to get help. So, that's what I ended up doing and I've made arrangements to see someone on a semi-regular basis for now. So I guess I'll see how that works out. But thanks guys.