Oh depression can and does kill many people. At their own hand but it kills all the same. It is not really the persons fault because it is the disease that kills them. I recently was back in CA and found out that 10 people I had known in AA had killed themselves in a 45 day period. Addiction and depression often go hand in hand. It is a very serious disease.

Often when I have been very close to suicide myself I fantasize about getting a fast acting cancer that would do the job for me. Or a massive heart attack in my sleep.

It is the whole stigma thing as well that would tend to make me want a physical thing rather than a mental one.