>Your suicidal point is a separate topic though. That's a mental illness rather than an action someone chooses or is lead into. Is it always a mental illness?

>Your suicidal point is a separate topic though. That's a mental illness rather than an action someone chooses or is lead into. Is it always a mental illness? I have to say that I hate the circumstances that lead people to suicide, and I don't think that I'd ever follow that course, but don't the reasons for suicide range from mental illness (eg depression) all the way to self determination (eg suffering from a terminal disease)?