Do you personally know anyone who's committed suicide?

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27. I knew five that I recall immediately

One was a highly intelligent classmate of my elder daughter. Her dad left soon after she was born (gay, couldn‘t stand pretending any more). Then there was the son of a classmate of my younger daughter. He was Greek, also gay, terrified of revealing it to his orthodox, traditional parents. The other three were thirty-ish men. One a macho type who was having business problems and didn‘t want to admit it. Another was a talented, good-looking German guy married to a super-attractive girlfriend of my wife. We suspect clinical depression, since he had a lot in his life to be thankful for. The last was a bright, but never-got-anywhere guy I knew in Boston in the 1970s. I suspect depression there, too. I think the one common factor was that they were all battling internal demons they either couldn‘t or wouldn‘t share.