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When is suicide without cryonics ever rational, aside from rare situations where altruism demands it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't think of any personal situation with zero possibility of improvement. Chris's suicide, like the vast majority of suicides, was irrational and sad.
The demonization of suicide by society and the effect that that may have on the suicide rate is a separate issue, and is less clear. It would be interesting to see a study on this effect.
If you, reader, are thinking of committing suicide yourself, please don't. Things will improve. There's no way things won't improve.
Yes, if we think of depression as a sort of temporary state from which we eventually revert to the mean level of happiness. However, I think in a state of depression one tends to believe it to be a permanent, unchanging state.
One may tend to believe depression to be permanent and unchanging while in a state of depression, but that belief is wrong. No state of depression is ultimately untreatable, and if any state of depression is untreatable at present, suicide with cryonics is a solution superior to suicide without cryonics.