Why do you think a person who has success, plenty of money, and material possessions would commit suicide?

Answer 1

There are many reasons, but generally they may have suddently had the foundation of their lives torn out from under them and been unable to deal with it. For example, a successful person could have based his life on his family, but just learned that his father is gay, or his wife is having an affair, or been caught in one of his own. People often can't withstand discovering that they have based their lives on illusions, or having the illusions they themselves created torn apart.

Answer 2

The same reasons a person who doesn't have success, plenty of money, and material possessions would commit suicide. Having those things has nothing to do with it, unless maybe they got those things in an immoral way, and they are feeling guilty about it. Depression is the major cause of people committing suicide.

Answer 3

Happiness is a choice that people make. You choose to make the best or worst of your circumstances. Money is not a cure all and possessions do not make everything okay. Money is simply a convenience. Things are nice to have but sometimes when we get what we want so much, we realize that what we wanted was not good for us. Who knows the heart and mind of a man...what makes him laugh or cry. Who knows the hurt or isolation he feels inside. Suicide happens at all social and economic levels.

Answer 4

People have suicided after receiving a harsh response here when looking for help and having their question deleted. I know because a friend of mine here personally knew the person who suicided. People need to be more careful how they talk to potential suicide cases instead of being rude or treating them like a joke.

Answer 5

"I received this e-mail today from Andy McQuitty (the pastor of Irving Bible Church) concerning some recent findings on depression in America… It definitely makes you think about what’s going on in our country…

According to a new study by the World Health Organization and the Harvard Medical School, Americans are the unhappiest people on Earth. Because you drive on rush-hour freeways in Dallas, you already knew this. But now there’s statistical proof.

Researchers found that 9.6 percent of Americans suffer from depression or bipolar disorder. That’s the highest rate of the 14 nations surveyed. No longer is the old USA solely the land of opportunity; we’re now the land of therapy as well.

Get this: America has a greater percentage of depressed people than war-torn Lebanon (6.6%); unemployed Mexico (4.8%); hedonistic Italy (3.8%); and overworked Japan (3.1%). If that’s not enough to astound you, get this: Nigeria, an impoverished, conflicted, and corrupted land, had the lowest depression rate of all-just 0.8%.

How can this be? The theory is that when your life is a struggle to survive, you’re too busy to contemplate despair. Existentialism truly is a luxury of affluence. Also, in poorer societies, relationships tend to be tighter-knit and faith stronger. When you have nothing, family and faith is everything. I myself have observed this in Nigeria, as a matter of fact.

It’s not that we don’t have faith and family in America. Obviously, we do. It’s just that there’s so much else as well. Being continually distracted from experiencing and investing in what truly matters is little different from not having what truly matters at all. I just have one word to say about that: Less-is-more…

Do you think maybe Jesus was right when He said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God” (Luke 6.20)?"

Answer 6

There are many reasons someone may take their own life. seemingly those who appear to have everything are no exception. Depression is the number one cause of suicide in the world. It effects the rich and the poor. Many people think they have depression but they honestly don't they think because they have a hard life that they suffer from depression but depression is an imbalance of chemicals in the brain, not because your sad.

Answer 7

Depression!

Answer 8

because the ultimate happiness of a person will never be based on the amount of material things you have.maybe this person is searching for true love that his money and fame cannot give.
thanks!

Answer 9

Maybe they came to realise that those things do not bring happiness - they may have had unresolved or unresolvable issues from earlier in their life and when they realised that the things they had didnt make them happy they decided that was the only way out.

Answer 10

He is suffering with cancer and can't stand it any longer. Or else, he is lonely with no one to talk to or spend the money for him or appreciate his success. There is no point in living that way, right?