This article analyzes the relationship between suicide and the sociocultural construction of pain in modernity from a sociological and educational perspective. The objective is to interpret this phenomenon not as an individual act or isolated pathology but as an expression of the collective suffering produced by inequality, social fragmentation, and the loss of meaning that characterize contemporary societies. Through a qualitative theoretical-documentary approach, contributions from classical and contemporary authors—Durkheim, Marx, Halbwachs, and Elias—were reviewed and systematized, along with recent studies on youth and education. The findings reveal that suicide represents a form of social pain linked to structural and affective transformations of modernity, which affect the construction of vulnerable subjectivities and erode community ties. From an educational standpoint, the s...