'Just because someone is projecting cheerfulness outward and trying their best to be brave, does not mean they are not suffering and it certainly doesn't mean t

'Just because someone is projecting cheerfulness outward and trying their best to be brave, does not mean they are not suffering and it certainly doesn't mean that they're "ok."' Exactly. What a shallow analysis. I also disdain the use the title of "Prof" in these situations, it makes you believe him to be a psychatrist or medical specialist on suicides, but "Brian Jack Copeland (born 1950) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury" (Wikipedia). He is no more special to have an opinion than you and me.