Moderation warning - Language around a sensitive topic
Let's be careful around this topic and not frame the final moments of people in acute crisis as them giving up.
This type of language (e.g.: "giving up", "taking the easy way out", etc.) only reinforces the idea that people struggling with their mental health are somehow weak, or didn't try hard enough. What is intended as a positive life lesson learned from a beloved celebrity sounds very different in the current context.
People in crisis need help, and finding help is already no easy task due to stigmas, shame, costs, and an overloaded medical support structure. Suicide is the leading cause of death of people between 10-34 years old. Strangers on the internet saying suicidal ideation is tantamount to giving up will not help people in crisis - and it might even contribute to them not seeking help.
We know for a fact how celebrities taking their own life can be the inciting event which pushes other desperate people over the brink, [URL="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/07/health/robin-williams-suicide-increase-study/index.html"]see what happened after Robin Williams passed in 2018[/URL].
I don't want to shut down conversation about a serious topic like this, and deny people the opportunity to pay their respects. But if we can't have those conversations without being [I]very [/I]mindful of how our words will impact those around us, I have zero issues shutting the thread down.