I'm really sorry your father had to go that way.

I think for the family members left behind, yes it is an extremely big loss. And, if anyone should be allowed to comment on, or judge the person's action, it should be them as they would know the person best and would be closest to the truth.

I think I can see that I should have distinguished the group of people more clearly in my original post, I do apologize. When I say the "normal/happy" people, I mean those who have never been exposed to suicide or suicidal thoughts in any shape or form.

What I mean is those people who always seem to have some kind of opinion about these things, not knowing the first thing about what they are talking about, almost like those very rich people who always sit on TV telling the poor how to work with money and save money and that sort of thing, all the while not knowing how it is to go one day without money and the ability to buy even the most basic of stuff.

However, I still think that 95% of the time, suicides are not driven by selfish motives. Speaking from experience with suicidal thoughts, it is the thought of being a burden or a nuisance to all other human beings that just serves as such an unrelenting attack on an individual. I'm sure it is capable of driving people to their death.