Is there a survivorship bias when discussing suicide?
Let's imagine there's a certain subset of the population who will simply never be happy, no matter what lifestyle changes they make. Let's imagine that there's something deeply rooted in their brain chemistry that no medicine can address, something on a genetic level, and nothing on the horizon will fix that within their lifetime. Would it be wrong to say that these people are within their rights to make a respected decision on whether or not to end their own life? If so, is it then inappropriate to treat their suicide as a preventable mistake rather than a long term, informed decision?
If we can imagine that, yes, there are some people who might as well kill themselves, doesn't it make sense to imagine that these people would be more likely to choose fully lethal options rather than things that give them a lower chance of dying, like overdosing on a somewhat banal drug or jumping off a bridge? If we run with that kind of thinking, we can reasonably assume that a disproportionate amount of Suicide survivors are more accurately described as "Cry for help" people, and that the survivor sample set totally ignores people who may have been reasonable to end their lives.
I'm shocked that I truly can't find ANY papers doing as much as speculating on this. Are people scared to talk about suicide in an open way? I'm not suicidal, but I have some personal interest in the topic, so if anyone can point me to a good book that tries to discuss suicide and its interpretations in a way that feels at least somewhat objective and neutral I would be interested.