Are people surprised that personal suicide rates are increasing when we as a society are rapidly engaging in increasingly reckless, suicidal behavior?

The late Jane Jacobs in her final book in 2004, warned to society that a "Dark Age is Ahead". Over a decade ago, she warned of many alarming trends.

1) People are increasingly choosing consumerism over family welfare, that is: consumption over fertility; debt over family budget discipline; fiscal advantage to oneself at the expense of community welfare.

2) Universities are more interested in credentials than providing high quality education.

3) Elevation of economics as the main "science" to consider in making major political decisions.

4) Governments are more interested in deep-pocket interest groups than the welfare of the population.

5) A culture that prevents people from understanding the deterioration of fundamental physical resources on which the entire community depends.

I highly recommend reading Jane Jacob's Dark Age Ahead. It's been almost a decade since I've read it, but in the era of Trump, I'm thinking of getting it out again for a second look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Age_Ahead