He killed himself because of what we are ALL going through!
It is not normal to kill yourself only because you lose your job! People are killing themselve or going out and killing others because they are feeling an intense build-up of stress.
There is a reason for that stress build-up. We are evolved through millions of years as small-group primates. That is, we only feel secure in and feel compassion for a small number of people. Language-based ideologies made it possible for us to bond into much larger groups beginning about 40,000 years ago.
The move was not entirely successful, however. Always, human nature finally broke up these ideolgocal systems into smaller sect-led groups and the splintering of the ideology resulted in social problems and the breakdown, ultimately, of government. You may have noticed how the civilizations of history have risen and fallen in cycles.
The problem is that all our ideolgoies are now hopelessly divided, so much so it is increasingly difficult to get cooperation on needed world solutions. Even the so-called "united front against Kaddafi" was voted on in the UN Security Council in which all of Islam itself is without veto power. The vote was US-led Western. We really do not even have the Arab League behind us.
We need cooperation on nuclear disarmament, global carbon emissions, saving species, and birth control limitations on population growth.
About a decade ago, a scientist wrote a treatise on "The End of History" because it was thought that the end of the Soviet system heralded the final chapter of the long "stuggle of the human race for democracy" and that it was about to be achieved world wide! Well, it isn't, can't and won't. The idealism or over-idealism has faded to realism. The majority of people now accept that our civilization is in decline.
The upshot of all this is that the stress level is rising and will continue to rise until we slip into the next phase.
I am working on what that might be and envite others to join in . . .
