If you commit suicide, it can mean anything from wanting to get back at someone passive-aggressively, or even something as simple as being high/drunk. It doesn't necessarily mean you're mentally ill either. Saying you have to be mentally ill to kill yourself intentionally seems kind of ignorant to me.
Mental illness makes you irrational, but life can really suck. I can see how someone might kill themselves because they simply don't feel like living for X amount of years. Does that make them mentally ill because they don't have much going for them? Suicide only makes sense to the person who's dead.
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