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I agree with you. Her biggest mistake was going public with this. Now, sentiment, opinion and presumption are in full spin cycle. Only her immediate lawyers and clergy, if she has one, needed to know.

The fact that she has gone so public has got me wondering if she wishes to be talked out of it. Something like the Sylvia Plath Syndrome. Sylvia Plath, an early 20th Century poet, author of The Bell Jar, was notorious for her repeated attempts to kill herself, until finally she (some say inadvertently) succeeded. Some hard core literary fans blamed her husband Ted Hughes infidelity for her death. Ted lived until 1998.

I never thought of that possibility of going public to talk herself out of it. Maybe to obtain feedback from other victims of this terrible affliction. Good observation on your part.

Supposedly women made a lot more suicide attempts than men do, but men succeed more often. Women suiciders usually use methods which include a possibility of rescue (e.g. drugs) whereas men' methods are more decisive (nooses, guns.)

It seems further linked to women's desire both to kill themselves and to talk abut it --- suicide as an ongoing theme--- contrasted to men's desire to just get it over with.

I wonder if somebody offered Brittany a TV interview on November 8, if she wouldn't put off her suicide a week...

This is not to malke light of her condition. But it could be like the 1001 nights of Scheherazade: one more reprieve, one more story...

I do hope she listens to the palliative care people. Excellent palliative care would ensure that she lives and dies comfortably, without anyone being implicated in murder or the mainstreaming, fawning, conniving "acceptance" of murder.