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Slack.com slash DHQ. So I want to say some things about suicide today. It's a difficult

subject, a painful subject, a personal subject. Like so many millions of other people. This

is something that I've not only heard about on the news, but I've also encountered around

me in my own life, in the lives of people close to me, especially. And I think that's

probably the case for almost everybody that's watching this right now, almost everybody

unfortunately in the country is probably connected to this issue personally in some way.

So that's what I want to talk about. And the reason I want to tell you ahead of time

that this is something that I have encountered is so that you understand that I'm not just

approaching this from a purely analytical kind of detached perspective, but from a, I hope

a rational and grounded perspective, but also a human one, a personal one. Now, obviously

the reason that we're discussing this now is that two prominent people killed themselves

last week, Anthony of Wardaine and Kate Spade. And in the meantime, there have been news

reports about the rapidly rising suicide rate across the country. And it's rising nearly

everywhere in every state. So something is clearly happening in this country, something

is going wrong. I think that's obvious. And when we see suicide, especially among the

rich and famous and successful, it makes us stop and kind of ponder for a minute because

our assumptions are overturned. And the facade kind of melts away and we're awakened to this

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