It can be a rational options, but for most I'd bet it it's irrational. People are irrational about a lot of things, so I don't see why suicide is exempt. For t

It can be a rational options, but for most I'd bet it it's irrational. People are irrational about a lot of things, so I don't see why suicide is exempt. For the rest of the cases I think of suicide as the ultimate result of mental illness. When someone with cancer dies, we say cancer killed them. When someone dies of suicide, for most cases it was mental illness that killed them.