This must in part explain the mass shootings.  Suicide was a rare thing when I was growing up. I don't know what's changed in our culture.  This was an Eastern cultural thing, according to a friend who lived in Japan it was common and for (to him) ridiculous reasons.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/suicide-rates-are-30-percent-1999-cdc-says-n880926