A user whose father took his own life recently asked me to remove this topic.
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I like the updated OP a lot more than the old one. The original seemed very emotional, which is completely understandable for the friends of people who have committed suicide. It's just one of those phases of grief. Luckily, I have not had to experience the fallout of a suicide, but I can sympathise with how you feel. However, we can only imagine what motivation could possibly drive a person to override their most basic instinct and take their own life. I don't think they would ever do it to spite their friends and family. Part of the problem is the fact that depression, and mental illness in general, is very much a taboo subject for some people; we just don't want to talk about it. So people who need help might not ask for it, because they're afraid of what everyone would say. We need to let each other know that we can be confided in and that they can openly discuss their mental health without being judged.