Hard to feel sympathy when someone takes their own life leaving kids behind. Oh, and leaves the body for the family to find.
I find it difficult to understand this sort of response.
Firstly, we don't know if it was suicide for certain yet.
Secondly, we do not know the circumstances surrounding it if it was. If he was suffering from a mental health disorder, you can't rationalise his taking his life. Because when you have a mental health disorder, you don't think rationally. That's why it's called a disorder.
As someone who has spent a long old time with mental health problems (both aware and unaware of the fact - my CCO thinks I have been affected since about the age of 5), I wish a could adequately explain what happens during an episode, but it is very difficult. But it is very much a mind altering experience which not only causes changes in thoughts, but a complete personality change.
I have tried to kill myself before. Not because if felt sorry for myself, but because I couldn't see what I was contributing to the world and I honestly believed that people would be PLEASED that I was dead and that indeed they would benefit from it (yes, my family included). It's not true, of course, (they'd end up paying my debts for one thing!), but that was my genuine and lasting belief at the time and I found it hard to grasp this wasn't the case, even though they had gone to the bother of saving my life.
So please consider that in this case the world is not always black and white and that reality doesn't exist for some of us.
