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I wouldn't call it "noble", either.

But in our case, for example, my brother believed that his mental illness (paranoid schizophrenia) had become a horrible embarrassment to our family. We lived in a small town, and everyone knew he was sick. There were public manifestations of the disease (sobbing in public, frightening people, walking around outside in a thin bathrobe in the middle of January in Wisconsin). My parents were aging at an accelerated rate, trying desperately to help him.

He probably thought he was doing it as much for us as he was to escape the pain.

All I can say is I wish he hadn't...and maybe anger at people who commit suicide (a side-topic in this thread - not something in your post) is appropriate in some cases, but not in ours.

All I can say is I wish he hadn't...and maybe anger at people who commit suicide (a side-topic in this thread - not something in your post) is appropriate in some cases, but not in ours

I understand that completely. It's a fine line to walk. That fine line is having symapthy for one's mental troubles, without going overboard and making the ultimate act, suicide, into something noble.

And again JMO, but some on FR are making TILH's suicide into a noble act, it wasn't. It was tragic.