I wonder if they understand the more stories they do the more THEY are informing the public, whom they claim to care so much about, of the existence of sn.
Speaking just from personal experience, until you have that shift in brain chemistry that causes you to "see" that you and/or those you love "would be better off with you gone" I just don't think anyone who hasn't had those thoughts spontaneously occur can imagine just how great the pain is.
Before I became suicidal, I had lost a classmate, a couple of co-workers, a close friend and knew of suicides here and there reported in the news and truly could not comprehend why anyone would EVER think suicide was right thing to do. However, after I started taking attenolol, a popular blood pressure medication, and had the first thought that "my work here was done" suicide had NEVER crossed my mind.
I spent literal WEEKS researching how I wanted to do it; when was "best" time; how was the "best" way; what to put in my notes, the whole nine yards. And looking back, I was completely convinced it was my time to go.
After I stopped taking attenolol the insane DRIVE I had to kill myself lessened, but those thoughts have never left me. I still have a plan and I still believe I will die by my own hand. The only thing that is different is the "itch." I now realize I still have things I need to accomplish before I go.