There are many reasons for suicide. Sure, usually suicide is the result of severe depression and desperation. But sometimes a person suicides because they simply don't want to face a future they don't want. When my aunt was 60 her husband of 42 years died suddenly of a heart attack. My aunt and uncle had a storybook marriage; they adored each other. So his death really hit her terribly hard. A few months after that, she found out that she was going to have to have her leg amputated because of damage from diabetes. My aunt had no mental illness and she was not prone to depression. But she chose not to accept a the future she was facing, and suicided.

I wish she wouldn't have done it, her suicide was awful. I miss her so much - as does everyone left in my family. But she said she wanted to be with her beloved husband. I can understand, in some ways, how she felt, facing her life without her husband, with the prospect of losing her leg, and with the continuing health problems she had.