About one million people (in US) attempt suicide a year and cost the nation $500 billion. How is this cost calculated and why is this figure so high ($500,000) for each attempt?

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About one million people (in US) attempt suicide a year and cost the nation $500 billion. How is this cost calculated and why is this figure so high ($500,000) for each attempt?

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It’s pretty fucked up for someone to be in such a bad place mentally that they take their own life, and then Society just goes “Awe Man! We could have made so much money working them away!”