A friend of mine told me that when you are contemplating suicide, it is complete selfishness, because your pain is clouding all thought beyond your pain and it is all you can comprehend.
Quite a few of my family members have committed suicide. It seems to run rampant in my tree. I have never been in so much mental or emotional pain that I have considered it.
I finally decided that people who commit suicide cannot be judged, because our chemistry is so complex, there is no way to know what they were experiencing or why they did it. If you could step inside their mind, there is no way to be sure if you would overcome the desire or not.
I have to agree with the statement about it being a way to take control. It is an... odd overly easy way to "take control."