This picture tweeted by The Academy (Oscars) about Robin Williams is beyond poignant:

[FBaggins]

37. Did you even read what you replied to?

It doesn't appear so.

I'm not treating them like morons. I'm treating like people with an illness who are considering self-treating that illness - when they should instead seek medical assistance from a professional. Which is exactly what they are.

Finding out other people suffer too doesn't make them worse.

This image isn't showing them that other people suffer (not being "morons"... they already know this). It tells them that the rest of society thinks this guy's self-treatment fixed his problem... that it is in some way acceptable.

If someone was bleeding, would you insist on protecting them from images of cuts and scrapes?

Nope... but if their injury required an emergency room and they were thinking of "toughing it out" and stitching it up themselves, I wouldn't want to show them images that implied that "real men deal with these things themselves".

Like I implied in the first post. I "get" the image. I'll miss so much of who he was and think the world is a darker place for his loss... but at least he isn't suffering any longer (existential/theological/"What Dreams May Come" considerations aside). Not being depressed or suicidal, I "get" that. But I do have relatives and friends who have suffered from severe depression and suicidal thoughts... and more than one is no longer with us because of it. In far too many cases, they thought that this solves their problem and those of the people who suffer because of them.

They often think that they're being self-sacrificial easing the troubled of those they love... that the world is better off without them.