It's just terrible to see someone with seemingly nothing wrong feel so alone that it came to this point. From the statuses in OP it seems like he felt he had nobody to go to.
We recently had somebody take their life due to depression on another forum I belonged to as well. Its amazing to see how communities, despite rarely knowing each other on a personal level, can come together in times like this. On this other forum after hearing the news another member made a post talking about his own depression and how others could always come to him to talk, and about 20 others came in and also volunteered to listen to anyone going through problems. Just in an effort to try to prevent another Self Delete in the future. I'm thinking of starting a thread like that here. So members can talk about any anxiety or depression they have and know they are not alone and have people they can talk to.
Hella late, but I feel like this needs addressing.
Yes, we have a portion of the community that does a great job of coming together at times like this. Unfortunately, as far as I have observed, this community on the whole has a particular richardishness about it that (among other things) tends to take Self Delete, depression, and suchlike as a laughing matter. Hell, just look at the number of times phrases like "kill yourself" come up, it was a pretty common thing (though I been gone a while). It stops being funny the precise moment that someone actually does it, and even still you get richardwads dropping in and laughing at others pain.
I'm pretty sure that any thread we made about depression issues would quickly be filled with "attention whoring" or parodies thereof (and we might not even be able to tell the difference), alongside a couple people persistently making a mockery of the issue and insulting everyone involved, saying things like "your problems don't matter", "nobody cares", "lel Self Delete by stab", and suchlike.
That said, the community also tends to be more accepting of such things if they're brought up by well-established, well-respected members. If, for example, me, or maybe Moltenkitten were to make a depression thread, the scorn would be strong enough to immolate a computer. Destroyer, on the other hand, could probably pull it off.
