I discount Turing's works because of his suicide. I think the Turing award ought to be renamed. Consider all the love and respect directed at Robin Williams af

I discount Turing's works because of his suicide. I think the Turing award ought to be renamed. Consider all the love and respect directed at Robin Williams after he died. The perverse reality is that for someone in a suicidal frame of mind, that kind of love makes "I'd be better off dead" far more credible. I think the other extreme, outright condemning someone, probably doesn't work either, as it's liable to make a person with suicidal feelings feel trapped. So I settle for disapproval, that suicide is a permanent stain on someone's legacy, in the hope that it nudges someone to stick it out for another day.