Never Kill Yourself

Never ever kill yourself, friend. What, you think I'm just going to rehash some stupid Xitter meme from like two years ago? Shut up, man. I've been thinking about the way the world is going. Who even thinks about that these days, am I right? But listen, with everything from MAID to furthering advancements in healthcare and an ever-growing dissatisfaction with the social contract we find ourselves bound to, I worry for the days when I'm an older man and suicide is the leading cause of death. I worry that non-suicide deaths will be rarities, events reported on the news to prove that "no, it's fine, people still kick it the old-fashioned way!" Even when we look at fertility rates falling below replacement rates almost globally, it's tough to say that the world's population won't go down in my lifetime. But honestly, I'm less concerned about population decline itself and am more concerned with how it'll happen. People are growing not just dissatisfied with the social contract, but…