Without claiming any authority on the subject, I would suggest that suicide can be seen as a 'luxury'* in certain cases:
Isn't it that much harder to "undo yourself" when you have dependents on you that have no other alternative?
If it takes $x units of depression to take your own life while responsibility-free, wouldn't it take 10 * $x to do so while knowing that you're leaving your children to the STATE?
* Bad choice of word considering the context, but I can't find another. I hope you get what I mean.
If you've never been depressed I don't think you can understand what someone in that mind-state might think, and thinking: "my kids would be better off with anyone than me" is the exact sort of thing a suicidally depressed person might say.
Isn't it that much harder to "undo yourself" when you have dependents on you that have no other alternative?
If it takes $x units of depression to take your own life while responsibility-free, wouldn't it take 10 * $x to do so while knowing that you're leaving your children to the STATE?
* Bad choice of word considering the context, but I can't find another. I hope you get what I mean.
edit: Can't formatting.