RIP. However, this fellow must have been pretty mentally unstable to off him self for this. I wonder what his full life picture was.
Severe depression is a killer. Sad.
I can imagine that there are a lot of people living just paycheck-to-paycheck. The man may have little or no savings and no way to survive short of abject poverty for him and his family if he lost his job. He may have seen no way that he wasn't going to lose his job.
One off-hand remark in a politically correct culture can easily destroy a person. Definitely a "macaca" moment. (And I can't even recall what "macaca" was supposed to refer to and it doesn't matter. All that matters is that using the term is not "politically correct".)
Well thats the nub isn’t it? You just don’t know the full picture. This incident just might have been the last straw.