Interesting suggestion! It sounds plausible that “barely worth living” might intuitively be mistaken as something more akin to ‘so bad, they’d almost want to kill themselves, i.e. might well have even net negative lives’ (which I think would be a poignant way to say what you write).
Interesting suggestion! It sounds plausible that “barely worth living” might intuitively be mistaken as something more akin to ‘so bad, they’d almost want to kill themselves, i.e. might well have even net negative lives’ (which I think would be a poignant way to say what you write).