Full Idea
Suicide is always ascribed to depressive motivations with no account taken of an originality of, an original will to commit, the act itself.
Gist of Idea
Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored
Source
Jean Baudrillard (The Intelligence of Evil [2004], p.153)
Book Reference
Baudrillard,Jean: 'The Intelligence of Evil or The Lucidity Pact' [Berg 2005], p.153
A Reaction
Apparently research suggests that most suicides are clinically depressed, but even within the depression there is a startling act of will that goes beyond merely feeling bad.