But this isn't what we "essential workers" normally do. We don't normally have to wear masks and spend hours sanitizing and deal with 200x more people because everything else is closed and people are bored. We don't normally have to worry about getting sick and dying because a customer can't go to work with a fever so they decide to renovate their garden instead.

That's like saying "maybe if one gunshot wound is enough to kill you, the army isnt for you."
Each wound, physical or mental, is completely different. The same person who gets shot in the chest might live, but then later get shot much more minorly and not survive. The same person who survives something horrific without any issue might develop PTSD from just witnessing something else that's comparatively tame.

Also, "junk" food is less likely to expire before you can eat it, especially if you have unreliable electricity or even no fridge or freezer at all.
Plus those times that you see people buying a bunch of sweet "junk"? Go ahead and rail at them about it. I'm sure it's not someone buying stuff for a kids birthday party or something. Because poor people aren't allowed to have birthdays.

Except there was no lion.

(And people who are in accidents have people who fight for them, too- they aren't unplugging people for any was in other than there really isn't hope anymore, and that's awful but unrelated to those who, by accident or suicide attempt, CAN be saved.)

No, please no. Most people don't commit suicide because their life sucks; they commit suicide because they believe that things that suck now will suck forever, and there's no hope. I'm glad you recovered partially, but you're still perpetuating the myth because you clearly still believe it.
Please don't believe it. Seek more than conversations about it if that's not helping. You are worth it, and worth other people fighting for your life when you can't fight because you have lost hope. Others will hope for you until you can.

The vast majority of survivors of suicide attempts are extremely grateful to be alive. Suicide attempts are commonly caused by a disease that makes you miserable and lies to your brain until it believes that the misery is normal. It would be like if having the chicken pox made you believe peeling your skin off was the only way to not itch that badly forever. When the disease of depression is treated, or when the moment of the worst of it has passed, people who attempt suicide WANT to live. Even with scars, and the "dissapointed" looks (not usually true, btw- most people in the suicidal person's life are just as happy they survived as they are and now understand the severity of a problem with their loved one that until then they may not have thought to try and help with).
So please. Don't perpetuate the myth that people who attempt suicide are better off if they succeed. It's best if they get help before it comes to that, but if they can't, surviving the attempt can change everything.