Why is it that the most sensitive people are the one’s that take their own lives?

I remember Richard Jeni’s stand up routine. It was full of clever observations and self-deprecating humor. He just seemed like a decent guy who was overly aware of how trying life can be.

Ditto Kurt Cobain
Ditto Elliot smith
Ditto John Kennedy Toole

I could go on forever. Von Gogh, Plath, Hemmingway.

I get a little lump in my throat every time I hear someone committed suicide. What a terrible place to be to genuinely feel like your best option in life is to opt out. I suspect no matter how depressed I ever got, I could never do that to everyone I care about.

It just seems extra puzzling that people who seem to have anything you could desire would still not want to continue living.