Most suicides being attributed to mental illness is one of the great (not necessarily deliberate) deceptions in our society. There was a great article posted h

Most suicides being attributed to mental illness is one of the great (not necessarily deliberate) deceptions in our society. There was a great article posted here on HN a while back by a number of highly-regarded psychologists that stated most suicides in men (who make up most suicides in raw numbers) are not actually due to mental illness at all, but rather cultural and philosophical factors combine with certain events in their lives leading to a sense of irreconcilable failure. Hell, seppuku is a form of ritual suicide that has nothing at all to do with mental illness but it arrived at by a set of personal and moral values. I'll see if I can dig the article up.