I don’t think anyone can ever say for sure why someone who is no longer here to explain makes that kind of decision. But I do know that we can look at instances of suicide that gained public attention and there’s enough evidence even in those cases to see that people can have incredibly similar circumstances and one person may commit suicide, another could die accidentally, and someone else could survive. But it’s just a fact that not every person in a specific set of circumstances commits suicide. I don’t understand how the other poster can’t acknowledge that. So what I was trying to say is, regardless of the reasons or the circumstances, no matter how they may have been treated or the pain they experienced, inevitably, they made the decision themselves.

There’s a documentary called “The Bridge” about the suicides that occurred on the GGB over the course of a year. It interviews the families and friends of the people who died as well as one person who survived. Each of those people had different stories. Many of them had support systems, people who tried to help them and some had people who made their situation worse, some had typical family lives, some had lost everyone that mattered to them. They all jumped off of that bridge. And yet, some of the people interviewed were in the same situation as the person who jumped.

My uncle killed himself because his wife was unhappy and wanted to leave. Is his death now his wife’s fault?

I just feel like telling people that others hold blame for suicide is putting responsibility on people for a choice they didn’t ultimately make.

The only person I can think of that I’d say possibly caused another person to commit suicide would be Michelle Carter, but even in that case, he was suicidal well before meeting her.