[Confidential]

I can't say I'm an advocate for killing yourself, but I do believe that people who decided to kill themselves aren't as mentally ill as we might think they are. Suicide is a desperate decision, a decision that most might contemplate for a long time before they decide to go forward with it. A lot of them also stem from years of agony and pain, also from mental issues. There's times when every resource has been used up, but with no results. Mentally ill people are struggling just as much as people who struggle physically and just because we can't actually see what bothers them, doesn't mean they aren't hurting.

To answer your question, I've never really viewed suicide as weak or as a cowardly act. In my eyes, it'd take a decent amount of will and self-resignation to do such a thing, especially when attempting to distinguish between the "pros" and "cons" of leaving the ones around them, forever.