It does not matter. This person, who was mentally ill, made his own choice. What you are saying is that a suicide is someone else’s fault.
That is the slippery slope to curtail free speech rights and gun confiscation.
Her words did not cause this man to kill himself. He killed himself with his own two hands.
There is a personal responsibility issue here.
So yelling fire in a crowded theater is okay? After all, it was the fault of the people who fell and got trampled that they ran without seeing if there was a fire, right?
Asking someone if they would kill your wife for $125,000 is okay too, correct? After all, your words didn’t hurt them.
The problem as I see it is you think this is a hypothetical case about someone “urging” another to commit suicide. And it isn’t.
You need to read the texts to see the level of manipulation and control that she had over him. She killed him as surely as if she had locked him in that truck cab herself. And the fact that she used her words instead of her hands to do it makes no difference.
This isn’t about free speech, after all there are plenty of ways that your words can land you in jail. This is about manipulation of someone who is under diminished mental capacity. And she acted in a clearly criminal manner.