Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

‘Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground’ and other suicide news…

Here’s a sad question for the day: How many opioid overdoses could be classified as suicides? There’s no way to know, is there? If people are trying to bury their pain, depression and anxiety in pills or needles, how would public officials know — without a suicide note — that an overdose was intentional? What if victims are on a path suggesting that they simply don’t care whether they live or die?