Will the Suicide Rate Increase in the Following Years?

Suicide remains a significant global tragedy in 2025. Approximately 740,000 people die by suicide annually, equating to one death every 43 seconds worldwide. In the United States, suicide rates have continued to rise, with men dying at twice the rate of women and using more lethal methods such as firearms. The issue has also touched public figures, including writer-director Jeff Baena, who tragically took his own life earlier this year at age 47. Suicide persists as one of the leading causes of death globally.

Why? It is due to emptiness, a crushing, relentless emptiness that tears people apart, leaving them restless. Not even drugs can dull this dark sensation. When a person feels there are no other options, when life itself feels meaningless, they reach this breaking point.

What is the solution? We need to look at life in a way where we understand how and why nature operates, who we are, what is our nature compared to the general law of nature outside of us, where we are from, where we truly are now, where we are headed, and how we can make a significant impact in this picture. In other words, we need to develop an understanding of the meaning of life. This understanding, however, only comes when we are willing to cross the boundary between life and death. When existential questioning burdens us more than simply surviving throughout our lives, we then gain a yardstick to measure what life is truly worth living for. We can then begin to rise above our narrow self-serving lives.

What does this mean? It means not clinging to life in the way most people do, not holding on to every passing desire. Not only do you stop holding on, but you begin to live in a way where, every minute, you let go of your egoism—the desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone—and rise above it. At every moment you rise above death. It is as if you experience it constantly, but in doing so, you separate from this world and enter the upper world.

It might sound difficult, but it is not difficult at all. It is an incredible opportunity available to every person.

If we wish to understand the meaning of our existence, we eventually need to stop valuing our egoistic desire to enjoy for our self-benefit alone. Instead, we should appreciate it only as a foundation, a stepping stone to something greater. This world is merely a launching pad for building a higher life.

The higher life exists beyond death. When we “kill” our ego, so to speak, at every moment, i.e., when we let go of our small, self-centered existence, we then grow into a whole new spiritual reality.

Spiritual growth is about living not for ourselves but for something beyond ourselves, for the force of love, bestowal, and connection, for the system of reality, for humanity as a whole. When we direct ourselves outside of our “self” in such a way, then we embark on a transformative process that brings immense joy, harmony, peace, and a meaningful fulfillment in our path to discovering a true, eternal, and perfect existence.

Based on KabTV’s “News in Russian with Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on June 12, 2018. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.

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