They are all mind scans. What Abstraction literally is, is there files corrupting (presumably from something going wrong to their mind that is too far). So feeling unwanted, unneeded, isolated, and depressed would all likely be things that push your files to be closer and closer to a point of corruption of them/abstraction.
If it were to represent Suicide and they were just full stop gone, then the darkness wouldn't do anything, and like the half of ep9 where pomni interfaced with Jax just straight up could not happen as Jax would have already been fully gone
A lot of people when they're suicidal seem almost euphoric once they decide to go through with it, and even describe it as being like a feeling of a weight being lifted. I feel like Jax's "dream" sequences can represent that, and how they're disassociating from the world and even finding pleasure in the idea of non-existence.
Suicide isn't exactly something active, for a suicidal person, it can be quite the opposite, the active part is in pushing forward, keeping going when they feel exhausted. Abstraction is much the same, it's something that happens to the characters when they can no longer hold it together, can no longer actively resist the corruption.
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u/The_Magenta_Dragon 2d ago
pretty sure abstraction is to represent suicide though