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hakka-nyu-suon The prison inside: Japan's hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces

In order to even start "bettering themselves", they would have to adopt a kind of growth mindset that involves rejecting ideas like that one is "born unattractive", and that being born unattractive merits suicide.

A side effect of that mindset is also increased attractiveness to both potential partners and other social contacts in general.

hakka-nyu-suon How to set your Google account to delete itself after you die

Going "off the grid" (from your perspective) can look to others like "disappeared, and possibly dead". The photo sharing part could be useful for them to grieve, and you probably wouldn't enable this feature if you didn't consider them.

On the other hand, being kidnapped for ransom or being kidnapped by the state (i.e., arrested) is a far more serious false positive, I would think, because deleting your digital data would probably make recovering a whole lot harder.

hakka-nyu-suon As ER Wait Times Grow, More Patients Leave Against Medical Advice

That map shows California (which OP's article is about) as one of the states where CONs are not needed