Not specifically this, but I've always thought those who want to live on Mars were silly. I can see it from a lens of pushing the envelope of human achievement, but that's it.

Earth is pretty fucking nice. Maybe we can work on shipping the undesirables to Mars and the rest of us can stay right here.

It's suicide in the sense that there is no way a Mars colony can be self-sufficient, and a return trip will not happen. If resource shipments to Mars stop, and sending rockets to Mars is expensive, you're all going to die.

Hurr Durr Pocahonmars

lol

By the time you even get to Mars, its very unlikely your body would even be able to handle the turbulence of the ship's entry into the atmosphere even with it being as thin as it is. Bone loss and muscle degradation in space is inevitable if the trip is close to 5 years. People at the space station have to be carried out in a stretcher after landing on earth, and they are only limited to a few months there at most.

Add the fact that the soil is loaded with perclorates, self sustaining would be very unlikely if not impossible at this point with our best tech.