§ Fatalistic suicides occur in overly oppressive societies, causing people to prefer to die than to carry on living within their society. This is an extremely rare reason for people to take their own lives, but a good example would be within a prison; people prefer to die than live in a prison with constant abuse and excessive regulation that prohibits them from pursuing their desires.
It rather depends what part of the world you were in. People in Japan were thinking something quite different from what people in the US were thinking.After the first use of the atomic bomb in 1945, the world entered into an age of atomic anxiety. During the Cold War period of 1945 - 1990, the world waited nervously to see if there was going to be a nuclear war between the US and the USSR. This was followed by a brief period of relative calm, and now we are in the age of terrorism, in which we wait nervously to see if terrorists are going to get their hands on a nuclear weapon.Some people wait fatalistically for massive calamities to come, while others struggle to prevent them. The world remains very chaotic.
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A brief synopsis might put the answer in the proper context. Hamlet's father has just been murdered, a ghost claiming to be his deceased father claims he was killed by his brother Claudius who then marries Hamlet's mother, Gertrude. While talking to his mother in her bedroom, Hamlet hears a spy behind the curtains and kills him, thinking it to be his uncle. It is not; it is his girlfriend's father Polonius. The full speech delivered may also shed some light on the discussion. For this same lord I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so, To punish me with this and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him and answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel to be kind: Thus bad begins and only worse remains behind. Hamlet is sorry that he killed Polonius, but says fatalistically that "heaven hath pleased it so to punish me with this." He is imagining that heaven wants someone to be the "scourge and minister" to punish Polonius and Hamlet is the lucky guy. As for the phrase "I must be cruel to be kind", imagine this as a tough love approach. Hamlet believes that fate has put him in the position of the man who has to clean up the corrupt Danish court, but in order to do so, he must take some unpleasant measures. He is warning his mother that Polonius is not the only one who will be killed. He is preparing her for his intended killing of Claudius; the bad beginning is the murder of Polonius and the worse that remains behind is the killing of Claudius. But, he explains, although killing people may seem "cruel", in the end it is for the best, so in the long run killing Polonius and Claudius will be "kind" for Denmark.