Suicide as Emotional Disaster: A Governance-Centered Framework

This preprint proposes a governance-centered framing of suicide as an “emotional disaster”: a systemic breakdown of emotional safety arising from failures in public institutions, social trust, and protective infrastructure. Rather than treating suicide solely as an individual pathology, the paper reframes it as a collective risk indicator that calls for governance-level prevention—through emotional safety frameworks, crisis-sensing capability, and public-interest data governance. The discussion is conceptual (not an empirical study) and is shared as a timestamped research record to support future analytical, policy, and technical development. Any reference to non-clinical emotional signals is intended to be ethically aggregated under privacy-preserving, rights-respecting governance and is not medical advice or a diagnostic tool.