The Valley of the Shadow

“How could it be that they all lived in a place that inspired jealousy from out-of-towners, where the coolest gadgets and ideas come from, where the optimism is boundless, and where, as Kathleen put it to me somewhat sardonically, ‘people are working on inventions that will slow aging and probably one day stop death’ — and yet also a place where a junior in high school is closely familiar with the funerals of other teens?” The Atlantic’s Hanna Rosin on the Silicon Valley Suicides.