Do neoliberal values provide a fertile soil for suicidal ideation?

•Neoliberalism idealizes competitiveness and agency and disregards one’s context•Suicidality may partly be seen as an outcome of one’s failure to meet neoliberal ideals•Exclusionary attitudes promoted by neoliberalism foster the stigmatization of suicide•Proximate predictors of suicidality are associated with neoliberal attitudes•Neoliberal attitudes predict values and attitudes that facilitate suicidal thoughts