I don&#x27;t find this tragic, or suicide. Tragedy requires some kind of eventual catharsis or recovery. Suicide is intentionally causing your own death.<p>This is neither. This is the slow rot that comes from not being able to take care of yourself, like a mentally disabled person, except it&#x27;s an entire nation. They can&#x27;t fix it and they can&#x27;t stop it. And there&#x27;s no recovery to be had.<p>What lessons can we learn from the leadership of the country over the past 18 years?<p>One, maybe don&#x27;t trust someone who tries to take over the government by force, rather than by popular decree. Two, maybe don&#x27;t have unlimited presidential terms or rule-by-decree. Three, maybe don&#x27;t try to force economic, industrial or social change. Fourth, maybe don&#x27;t let your country&#x27;s leadership be best friends with countries that have terrible human rights violation records, and especially if they kick Human Rights Watch out of the country and are constantly criticized by other organizations. Fifth, maybe it&#x27;s time to revert controversial social and economic policies if your country actually stops producing crime data (and it&#x27;s not because the crime rate is so low). And sixth, though this is controversial, it would be nice to have a national constitution that puts safeguards in place that will root out institutional corruption by the coordination of an organization which isn&#x27;t appointed by an executive.<p>I don&#x27;t know much about politics, though, so take that with a grain of salt.