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Having a family member who commits suicide increases the risk of suicide.
Assuming that this sort of study is accurate, it backs the idea that people get emotionally entangled with each other. A General Theory of Love builds on the observation that human babies can die of loneliness to observe that many animal species and humans in particular need social contact for metabolic regulation. (Is this a Far line of thought, or what?)
In other words, even a not-very-promising member of a tribe may still be supplying non-obvious metabolic regulation services.
I'm guessing that people who live in tribes just don't get nearly as isolated as can happen in civilization. Anyone have actual knowledge about this? Stats on suicide among hunter-gatherers?
I don't know anything about hunter-gatherers, but suicide rates among industrialized nations correlate very highly with rates of single-person households. There aren't many social indicators on which Sweden does worse than Italy, but suicide is one of them.