Terrible news and tragic, but suicide, I'm still not one for understanding yet, especially when so many have so much less to live for and go on, go to any hospital in a cancer ward, or where people have lost limbs, or loved ones to drunk drivers, all this and still fight for the will to live, I think everyone can feel depressed about something, but its like a drug or alcohol, you have to be strong minded enough to say no, me, I just say to myself...who gives a Fu..there's nothing in this world I can't replace or live without, including loved ones, its a natural instinct to want to survive, so a sane person, or someone who doesn't have some other chemical addiction, should be able to fight off any feelings of suicide, maybe he returned to drinking, or had some serious mental issues. No one will probably ever understand how someone can take their own life.
I've seen people who's life almost gives them the right to commit such an act come back from serious diversity, and then there's those who give up with little reason to do so. Like DennisH, I still think its a selfish and cowardly way out.
My sympathy goes only to his family.