It's true that everyone dies. But killing someone is killing someone, whether it's another person or you. It's an act of destructive violence. It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem, usually. And it has huge repercussions among the survivors, vastly different and often way more hurtful than other deaths.
I'm not saying it's *wrong* or that you shouldn't do it. I'm saying: taking 100% responsibility means acknowledging that you are part of all this is, and if you remove yourself from this life, there will be tremendous consequences for others. I think often when someone is feeling badly enough to consider suicide as an option, they're in a pretty self-absorbed state and the impact of their actions doesn't occur to them -- or their experience of it is badly warped.
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