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If you think a grasp of responsibility makes you incapable of killing yourself after you've had a child, you're wrong. Depression isn't just being sad or having a bad day, and it can make the most responsible people seriously contemplate taking the easy way out. I'm not an advocate for suicide, but I understand why it happens. So again, if you think that people that kill themselves after having a child by default have no grasp of responsibility, you need to pick up a few books on depression and try to work a few people through it. Saying someone deserves to die because they're severely depressed (which is essentially what you're saying, because depression can and does cause otherwise responsible people to take their own life) is extremely negligent and, as I said, most likely based in an extreme ignorance of depression.
Is suicide an irresponsible act? Yes. But depression afflicts rational and irrational alike, and just because someone commits suicide doesn't mean they deserve to die.
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