[Lee.]

Originally Posted by Jake.

Ah Lee that's really sad but it shows what a place these people are in, given that suicide seems to be the only answer to stop their pain

Yeah, that's the impression I got; killing himself was the only way he could think if to make the pain stop.. He was beyond reasoning with.
IMO the cause of all his grief was silly, but it was much deeper than that.. He was in a really really bad place that death was the only cure for.

Incidentally, I talk to him quite regularly and he's stopped drinking, stopped smoking, tried to get back into having a social life and ran his first ever half marathon last week