I have experience with this. After the initial grief comes anger. How could you do this selfish thing to those who love you? It bothers me still.
When a person is at that level of despair, he isn’t thinking about the consequences. He is in pain and he’s consumed with finding relief for that pain. If he thinks about anyone else at all, it’s along the lines of “they will be better off without me.”
It’s a disease. Would Mr. Rollins berate a victim of lung cancer in the same way?